Abstract
While the opening chapter focuses on her escape and thus on encounters with state power, most of the book tackles her relationship with her trainers, Béla and Márta Károlyi. The thick description is indeed the book’s strength. The book is rightly angry about the state’s inaction given all it knew about the abuse Comăneci suffered. Toward the end, Olaru states that he did “not set out in this book to examine Nadia’s personal life, since it has nothing to do with her career” (218).
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 475-477 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2024 |
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Copyright - Copyright Johns Hopkins University Press 2024Last updated - 2024-10-01
SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Police; Daughters; Social Mobility; Historians
Keywords
- Sociology
- Archives & records
- Television programs
- Gymnastics
- Historians
- Secret police
- Books
- Daughters
- Social Mobility
- Police
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