The dancer defects: the struggle for cultural supremacy during the Cold War

Introduction: The culture war

pt. 1. Marking the territory. Propaganda wars and cultural treaties

The gladiatorial exhibition

pt. 2. Stage and screen wars: Russians and America. Broadway dead, says Soviet critic

The Russian question: a Russian play

Soviet cinema under Stalin

Hollywood: the Red Menace

Witch hunts: Losey, Kazan, Miller

Soviet cinema: the new wave

pt. 3. Stage and screen wars: Europe. Germany divided: stage and screen

Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble

Dirty Hands: the political theatre of Sartre and Camus

Squaring the circle: Ionesco, Beckett, Havel, Stoppard

Andrzej Wajda: Ashes and diamonds, marble and iron

pt. 4. Music and ballet wars. Classical music wars

Shostakovich's Testimony

All that jazz: Iron Curtain calls

The ballet dancer defects

pt. 5. Art wars. Stalinist art: Tractor drivers' supper

Passports for paintings: abstract expressionism and the CIA

Picasso and communist art in France

The other Russia: pictures by "jackasses'.