David Caute, The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural ...

The Dancer Defects is David Caute's ambitious effort to examine the cultural Cold War. Ranging over a variety of cultural forms but focusing primarily on the performing and fine arts, as well as architecture, Caute's sprawling and often overly detailed book is as comprehensive an account of the cultural conflict between the Soviet Union and the Western democracies as we are ever likely to have. ................
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