Volume 51, Number 9 · May 27, 2004
The Cold War over the Arts
By Michael Kimmelman
The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War
by David Caute
Oxford University Press, 788 pp., $39.95
In May 1961, the Kirov Ballet arrived in Paris. Its star was a peculiar, vain, and willful young dancer whom the company almost did not take with it on tour because Soviet officials could not be sure what he might do once he reached the West.
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