international qualifying tournaments as well as USSR national tournaments, we estimate models to test for collusion. Our results are … consistent with Soviet draw-collusion and inconsistent with Soviet competition. Simulations of the period's five premier …

1. 'To catch up and overtake' the West : Soviet discourse on socialist competition / Jutta Scherrer -- 2. Optimal … World Youth Festival as an arena of the 'cultural Olympics' : meanings of competition in Soviet culture in the 1940s and … Palonkorpi -- 10. Women and competition in state socialist societies : Soviet beauty contests / Melanie Ilic -- 11. Concluding …

"This book explores how the concept of "competition", which is usually associated with market economies, operated under … considers competition in a wider range of industries and social fields across the Soviet bloc, and shows how the gradual … includes discussion of the state's view of competition, and focuses especially on how competition operated at the grassroots …