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Sport at the World Festival of Youth and Students: Between Olympic Ideals and Socialist Internationalism ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 12 November 2020 doi: 10.3389/fspor.2020.567095 Sport at the World Festival of Youth and Students: Between Olympic Ideals and Socialist Internationalism Lidia Lesnykh* Faculté de Sciences Sociales et Politiques, Institute of Sports science, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland During the first decade of the Cold War, the communist-sponsored World Festivals of Youth and Students included a program of international sports events that provided elite athletes with a self-standing arena of international competition. They also encouraged mass participation in sports, without social, racial, or political discrimination, thereby implicitly questioning elitism in sport. The present paper argues that through the World Festivals of Youth and Students, the Soviet Union harnessed the universal language of sport as a tool of cultural diplomacy with which to expand develop an international socialist sports youth network. The Festival sporting events represented an alternative model of international sport, run in parallel to the Olympics, whose ideals of peace, friendship, and mutual understanding they shared. Keywords: youth and students, student sports, university sports, soviet sports, sports and communism, festival Edited by: of youth, socialist sport, socialist internationalism Jenifer L. Parks, Rocky Mountain College, United States INTRODUCTION Reviewed by: Sylvain Dufraisse, “Regardless of the size of the teams, whether they have won or not, the athletes form a big family Université de Nantes, France under the Olympic motto: ‘Friendship between athletes strengthens the friendship of peoples1.”’ Amanda Shuman, University of Freiburg, Germany Although these lines could be mistaken for an extract from Pierre de Coubertin’s writings, they Pia Koivunen, actually had a very different origin. In fact, they summarized the Soviet sport ideology underlying University of Turku, Finland the new concept of international sports competitions the Soviet Union created Olympics in the *Correspondence: early Cold War. The Festival and its associated sporting events, both of which fit the definition 2 Lidia Lesnykh of a “mega-event ,” pursued an original set of goals that combined the aims of Soviet cultural [email protected] diplomacy and Coubertin’s Olympic ideal. The present study examines to which extent the Festival’s sports competitions can be considered an alternative platform for sports internationalism driven by Specialty section: Moscow during the Cold War. This article was submitted to Sports were a major component of the World Festival of Youth and Students (hereinafter The History, Culture and Sociology of referred to as “the Festival”), which was launched in 1947 and hosted by a different Eastern Sports, European capital city in the summer of odd-numbered years. Bringing together thousands of young a section of the journal Frontiers in Sports and Active Living people, they were initially conceived as a forum for promoting cultural exchanges and mutual understanding, but quickly became a tool of Stalinist propaganda abroad. The program included Received: 01 June 2020 cultural, political, and educational events, as well as international sports events. It was drawn Accepted: 21 September 2020 Published: 12 November 2020 up at by an International Preparatory Committee under the coordination of Komsomol and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union3. In terms of their ceremonies, number of participants, and Citation: Lesnykh L (2020) Sport at the World 1“12 dnei rekordov,” Molodež’ mira (the Russian version of World Youth, the WFDY official magazine), 10, 1955, 38. Festival of Youth and Students: 2Müller (2015). Between Olympic Ideals and Socialist 3The International Preparatory Committee of each edition of the event was assisted by local sports institutions and its work Internationalism. was assisted and controlled by the Komsomol (All-Union Leninist Communist League of Youth), Communist Party of the Front. Sports Act. Living 2:567095. Soviet Union (CPSU), and the corresponding Soviet ministries for each part of the program (for example, Committee for doi: 10.3389/fspor.2020.567095 Physical Culture and Sports). Frontiers in Sports and Active Living | www.frontiersin.org 1 November 2020 | Volume 2 | Article 567095 Lesnykh Sports at the Youth and Students Festivals sports, the sports events were comparable to the Olympics, whose and recurrent nature, and their “universalism going beyond ideals they claimed to share, while advertising the achievements nationalism10.” Second, she emphasized the Festival’s link with of the socialist system. both the mass cultural events of the 1930s and the World Fairs, This paper examines the elite and grassroots sports events which were created to highlight modernity and traditions11. I held as part of the Festival between 1947 and 1957. Grassroots apply the term “cultural diplomacy” in harmony with the works sports events were held both before (“in honor”) and during the of Koivunen’s who considers it better adapted to the idea of Festival. The elite-level competitions were the X and XI World cultural exchange. Gillabert confirms of “cultural diplomacy” University Games, hosted by Budapest (1949) and East Berlin in more linked to the cultural policy and the actors of the (1951), respectively, and the I-III International Friendly Youth cultural field,” while “public diplomacy” corresponds “to the use Sports Games, hosted by Bucharest (1953), Warsaw (1955), and of political communication and of cultural content as its tool12.” Moscow (1957). Although the elite-level events were run by two In fact, recent Russian studies design Festival as a tool of public communist-sponsored organizations founded immediately after diplomacy13. Finally, the Festival sports events inevitably embed World War II–the International Union of Students (IUS) and in “sports diplomacy” as they participate in the Soviet foreign World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY)–, they had relations in this field. The literature review by Clastres (2020) different origins. The World University Games were rooted in underlines that the recent scholarship invites to reassess the the French universalism of the early 1920s and were open only contribution of sports to the international relations, both in link to students, whereas the Friendly Games were launched as part with Realpolitik and soft power14. of the Festival in order to offer all young athletes, whether or not As Kotek (1998) showed in his seminal study of youth and they were students, an opportunity to do sports without social, student organizations during the Cold War, the international political, or racial discrimination. The Festival’s sports events students and youth movement came to be dominated by aimed at democratizing sport and were strongly tailored to the communists in the late 1930s15. As a result, the sports Soviet Union’s cultural diplomacy purposes, enabling it not only competitions run by the IUS and WFDY were largely vehicles to promote the regime, but especially to create a new arena for for communist cultural diplomacy. This premise is supported sports socialist internationalism4. They actually illustrated of how by recent research by sports historians. For example, Schiller two rival socioeconomic models promoted their universalisms (2019) shed the light on the institutional and national specificities and internationalisms on a global scale with an important of the X Festival in Berlin and the political use made of participation of the Third World5. These events also helped to its sports events16, and Parks (2013) attributed the rise of defend “sports universalism in front of the social division6.” Soviet sport and its international integration to the efforts of According to Koivunen (2013), the aim of the Festival’s a “bureaucratic” element and its relations with the IOC and organizers was “to conquer a field that still did not have a sport federations17. She argued that this task became easier dominant leader or patron: youth7.” In other words, it was to in the context of peaceful coexistence and détente, because occupy the domain of youth sports, which had not yet been peace and friendship were a central part of this discourse. appropriated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) This “process of melding Soviet and Olympic ideals18” had and the international sport federations, rather than to become a already been noted by Riordan (1974), who also maintained rival to the IOC8. Koivunen’s pioneering research, based on large that “the USSR attempted to impose itself in international volumes of material from Soviet archives, examines the Festival as sports by creating new institutions instead of integrating the an instrument of Soviet cultural diplomacy and is a key reference existing ones19.” Parks (2014) pointed out the importance of for the present study. In the context of the present study, the developing nations in Soviet sports diplomacy20. In addition her thesis’ title, “Performing peace and friendship,” takes on a to these references, the works of Prozumensikov (2004) based double meaning, in that “performance” may also be considered on the Soviet archives offered a deep analysis on the state to refer to sporting achievements. Koivunen borrowed Caute’s participation in of the Soviet sports relations. Examining the (2003) concept of “Cultural Olympics9,” in which sports were Soviet sports system from an institutional perspective, Dufraisse an important soft power tool in the Cold War competition (2019) suggested that the Soviet sporting
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