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Currently Playing: How the Soviet Union Dominated Chess

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a look at look at the early Soviet fascination with the sport of chess and how they envisioned its use in creating the new Soviet citizen but also how early investment in the game resulted in international dominance. China's Cultural Revolution: https://youtu.be/fCA5VP5Tdrs Commercial Air Travel: https://youtu.be/fqVtEa5ooJ0 Reykjavik Summit 1986: https://youtu.be/xmDHy4M7rdM Saturday Morning Cartoons: https://youtu.be/hPToTKCcycI The Profumo Affair: https://youtu.be/PfQ-FY3zPdM Ghosts of Cold War Berlin: https://youtu.be/52bC38bm6rk America's Bioweapons pt 2: https://youtu.be/0yEVIRy23H4 America's Bioweapons pt 1: https://youtu.be/12WyLu6WuBs The CIA's Poisoner-in-Chief: https://youtu.be/6zRat81cDrg The Soviet Economy: Brezhnev, Oil, & Stagnation: https://youtu.be/NUUZCD_XfjI The Soviet Economy: Revolution to Khrushchev: https://youtu.be/2arxTSPhr6g How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE How Khrushchev Housed Everyone: https://youtu.be/lazVrmC7IVQ Soviet Tourism: https://youtu.be/t9KrH-xG20Q Soviet Passport System: New Serfdom or Reform?: https://youtu.be/Dgr9F3WFsbo Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA Communist Girl Scouts of America: https://youtu.be/QvgEHc0iyoQ ASALA, Armenia Secret Army: https://youtu.be/DFzIVfTNjH0 Amchitka Island Nuclear Test: https://youtu.be/Z89YnSS5RQA Soviet Criminal Underworld: https://youtu.be/zEJrivfLKGc Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #History #ModernHistory #Chess #SovietUnion #Soviet **SOURCES** Seth Bernstein, “Valedictorians of the Soviet School: Professionalization and the Impact of War in Soviet Chess,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2012) David Edmonds and John Eidinow, Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How a Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine (Harper Perennial, 2005) https://kirsan.today/en/analytics/item/3190-chess-in-the-ussr-lenin-set-chess-fashion-and-since-then-it-was-played-in-space-and-during-the-war.html Andrew Soltis, Soviet Chess 1917-1991 (McFarland & Company, 2000) Boris Gulko, Vladimir Pops, Yuri Fleshtinsky and Viktor Kortschnoi, The KGB Plays Chess: The Soviet Secret Police and the Fight for the World Chess Crown (Russell Enterprises, 2010) A Kotov and M Yudovich, The Soviet School of Chess (Dover Publications, 1961) David Shenk, The Immortal Game: A History of Chess (Souvenir Press, 2008) Brian Carney, “Victim of His Own Success: The Tragedy of Bobby Fischer,” The Wall Street Journal (2008) https://www.jaqueslondon.co.uk/blogs/posts/fischer-spassky-1972-match-of-the-century Daniel Johnson, White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was Fought on the Chessboard (Atlantic Books, 2008)