ABSTRACT
Communist sports policy in Europe is dead. It lives on in China, Cuba and North Korea. It was not everywhere identical; nor did it feature highly in terms of national priorities in the less economically advanced communist nations, such as Albania, Vietnam and Cambodia. Nevertheless, it did contain certain discernible similarities that marked it off from sports policies elsewhere in both the developed and the less developed world. This chapter examines these similarities, as well as the implications of the rapid volte face in sport in virtually all the erstwhile communist states following the revolutions in 1989 throughout eastern Europe.
