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Book Review: Sport under Communism: Behind the East German ‘Miracle’

The authors set out to dispel the myth that the GDR sports machine was ‘well-oiled’ and ‘smooth-running’ (p. 199) and the legend that ‘mass sport feeds [the] elite pyramid’ (p. 199). The authors are Mike Dennis, Professor of Modern German History at the University of Wolverhampton (UK) and Jonathan Grix, Senior Lecturer in Sport Politics and Policy at the University of Birmingham (UK). They draw on a wide range of primary and secondary literature, in particular original documents from both the Federal Archive and the State Security (‘Stasi’) Archive in Berlin. Furthermore, they “collated and analysed citizens’ communications/complaints (with the state: ‘Eingaben’), Stasi reports and memoirs of key actors in the East German sport machine” (p. 9).