| Abstract: |
The 1980 Olympiad in Moscow (the first Olympiad in Eastern Europe and the
socialist state) is viewed through the prism of the successes and failures of
the cultural and sports diplomacy of the Soviet state. Olympics-80 as a kind
of mega-project "developed socialism" promoted (albeit temporarily) not only
to strengthening the position of the Soviet Union in the international arena
(especially in the background of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan), but also
unity of Soviet citizens in the face of "Western threat". The situation was
somewhat more complicated with attempts to use the Olympic project to
strengthen the socialist camp. The source base of the research was the
materials of the State archive of the Russian Federation, the Russian state
archive of socio-political history and the Central archive of Moscow, as well
as the published documents of the Russian state archive of modern history. It
is shown that, despite the boycott of the Olympics, its consequences did not
have a particularly strong impact on the development of sports ties and
international tourism in the USSR. For example, in 1980, at the suggestion of
the delegation of the USSR, the participants of the world conference on
tourism, when adopting the Manila Declaration on world tourism, included in
the Declaration all the initiatives of the Soviet delegation. And since 1982,
the process of restoring international sports contacts began. |