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Article: The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 2005
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The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War. By David Caute. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 788. $39.95.)
The Dancer Defects is a fine, panoramic history of the cultural Cold War. The author has many wise and interesting things to say about culture in general and the Cold War in particular.
David Caute returns to one of his previous themes, arguing that cultural struggle was more than an epiphenomenon of political conflict. For him, the Cold War was nothing less than a battle for the soul of the Enlightenment. The cultural Cold War is seen through this central framing device, as a secular struggle between ...