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Paul Corthorn is Lecturer in Modern British History at Queen’s University Belfast. He is author of In the Shadow of the Dictators: the British Left in the 1930s (2006; paperback, 2013) and joint editor of the Labour History Review. This article draws on ‘The Cold War and British debates over the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics’,Cold War History 13, 1 (2013), 43-66.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGovernments and ‘soft power’ in international affairs: Britain and the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics
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