| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Book Review

Comparative/World

David Caute. The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. xiv, 788. $39.95.

David Caute recounts the cultural struggles that were an integral part of the Cold War in his new book. Many of our students are unaware of these struggles for cultural supremacy, in which the United States and the USSR unleashed bombs of invective upon each other to establish once and for all whether socialism or capitalism could produce the freer and more popular or more meaningful and elevated cultural products. Soviet authorities pointed to a sterling tradition of ballet and opera to demonstrate that state sponsorship preserves and enhances cultural traditions. The United States responded through official and unofficial channels with the allure of jazz and rock and roll, and the thrills of Hollywood cinema, to show that the marketplace alone could provide the masses with a culture that satisfied their demands.

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