Table of Contents

Introduction: The Culture War
Part I: Marking the Territory
1: Propaganda Wars and Cultural Treaties
2: The Gladiatorial Exhibition
Part II: Stage and Screen Wars: Russia and America
3: Broadway Dead, Says Soviet Critic
4: The Russian Question - A Russian Play
5: Soviet Cinema under Stalin
6: Hollywood: The Red Menace
7: Witch Hunts: Losey, Kazan, Miller
8: Soviet Cinema: The New Wave
Part III: Stage and Screen Wars: Europe
9: Germany Divided: Stage and Screen
10: Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble
11: Dirty Hands: The Political Theatre of Sartre and Camus
12: Squaring the Circle: Ionesco, Beckett, Havel and Stoppard
13: Andrzej Wajda: Ashes and Diamonds, Marble and Iron
Part IV: Music and Ballet Wars
14: Classical Music Wars
15: Shostakovich's Testimony
16: All that Jazz: Iron Curtain Falls
17: The Ballet Dancer Defects
Part V: Art Wars
18: Stalinist Art: Tractor Driver's Supper
19: Passports for Paintings: Abstract Impressionism and the CIA
20: Picasso and Communist France
21: The Other Russia: Pictures by 'Jackasses'
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes and References

About the Author

David Caute is the author of such books as The Fellow-Travellers and The Great Fear.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition This is a wonderful biography of the Cold War, fluent and crammed with detail'
Lesley Chamberlain, The Independent Magazine
`for the big picture as well as plenty of little ones, the result is masterly'
The Economist
`This is a profound study of a vast subject which was, we now see, a vital aspect of the Cold War. One now eagerly awaits the second volume.'
Contemporary Review
`Well-written, meticulously researched, peopled with a cast from Stalin to Nureyev, Eisenstein to Jackson Pollock.'
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Financial Times magazine
`This is a titanic achievement.'
Brian Morton, Sunday Herald (Glasgow)
`... impressive ... Caute encompasses theatre, film, painting, sculpture, classical music, jazz, rock and ballet - with a text that reads with virtuoso fluency.'
Classic FM - The Magazine
`... curious and absorbing new book ... an important book.'
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Times Literary Supplement
`This is a remarkably thorough and well-researched book, and will become the standard work on the subject.'
Simon Heffer, The Literary Review
`Extraordinary stories ... Caute is at his best when he drily lampoons today's (mostly) American academics who retroactively see cold war cultural politics in just about
everything.'
Peter Aspen, Financial Times