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' |