David Caute
Articles by David Caute
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Books
Extreme stories –– the cold war years
- 28 June 2010
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From the Spanish civil war onwards, writers were forced to negotiate a perilous intellectual divide. The result was the greatest era of political fiction we have known.
Art
All that glitters
- 15 January 2009
With a display of the opulent clothing of Russian royalty, are post-Communist curators inviting us to forget why the tsars had to go?
Europe
The leading man
- 11 September 2008
After more than a decade as Czech president, Václav Havel has returned to writing plays. Has his artistic vision survived the compromises of power?
Culture
Out of the red
- 07 February 2008
Modernist art that refused to conform was suppressed during the rise of the Soviet Union. Now it forms the climax of a selection from Russia's national archives
