Some guiding questions to consider (for inspiration only; you do not need to answer all of them): Dimeo's chapter does something we haven't quite seen before in a secondary source: he discusses not only history, but historiography -- the writing of history and analyses of why other historians have written things a certain way. Why does Dimeo take this approach, and why is it significant? Galeotti brings us out of the Cold War for a moment and towards a more nuanced understanding of present-day Russian politics (which are still informed by the Cold War, as are Western politics). How does Galeotti connect the current Russian doping scandal to Putin's political culture? How can we use this analysis to better understand Cold War issues as well? The 1980 and 1984 Olympic boycotts are perhaps the most famous incidents of Cold War politics affecting sports. How does Mertin situate these events? The Soviet reaction to the U.S. boycott in 1980 has been particularly misunderstood in the West. How does this chapter help us understand the Soviet worldview as it relates to the war in Afghanistan and the U.S. boycott? Parks also discusses boycotting as a "weapon" to be threatened or wielded in Cold War sports, this time for South Africa as a protest against apartheid. How did that boycott discussion compare to the 1980 and 1984 boycotts? How did it relate to Soviet sports diplomacy in the developing world more broadly? How do the histories of these boycotts as political activism compare to the history of African American activism in sports that we discussed a few weeks ago? How might we tie these readings and themes together this week? Honour or integrity in sport? Something else?

Some guiding questions to consider (for inspiration only; you do not need to answer all of them):

Dimeo's chapter does something we haven't quite seen before in a secondary source: he discusses not only history, but historiography -- the writing of history and analyses of why other historians have written things a certain way. Why does Dimeo take this approach, and why is it significant?
Galeotti brings us out of the Cold War for a moment and towards a more nuanced understanding of present-day Russian politics (which are still informed by the Cold War, as are Western politics). How does Galeotti connect the current Russian doping scandal to Putin's political culture? How can we use this analysis to better understand Cold War issues as well?
The 1980 and 1984 Olympic boycotts are perhaps the most famous incidents of Cold War politics affecting sports. How does Mertin situate these events? The Soviet reaction to the U.S. boycott in 1980 has been particularly misunderstood in the West. How does this chapter help us understand the Soviet worldview as it relates to the war in Afghanistan and the U.S. boycott?
Parks also discusses boycotting as a "weapon" to be threatened or wielded in Cold War sports, this time for South Africa as a protest against apartheid. How did that boycott discussion compare to the 1980 and 1984 boycotts? How did it relate to Soviet sports diplomacy in the developing world more broadly?
How do the histories of these boycotts as political activism compare to the history of African American activism in sports that we discussed a few weeks ago?
How might we tie these readings and themes together this week? Honour or integrity in sport? Something else?