Introduction: The oblique coordinate systems of modern identity / György Péteri
Were the Czechs more Western than Slavic? Nineteenth-century travel literature from Russia by disillusioned Czechs / Karen Gammelgaard
Privileged origins : "national models" and reforms of public health in interwar Hungary / Erik Ingebrigtsen
Defending children's rights, "in defense of peace" : children and Soviet cultural diplomacy / Catriona Kelly
East as true West : redeeming bourgeois culture, from socialist realism to Ostalgie / Greg Castillo
Paris or Moscow? Warsaw architects and the image of the modern city in the 1950s / David Crowley
Imagining Richard Wagner : the Janus head of a divided nation / Elaine Kelly
From Iron Curtain to silver screen : imagining the West in the Khrushchev era / Anne E. Gorsuch
Mirror, mirror, on the wall
is the West the fairest of them all? Czechoslovak normalization and its (dis)contents / Paulina Bren
Who will beat whom? Soviet popular reception of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959 / Susan E. Reid
Moscow human rights defenders look West : attitudes toward U.S. journalists in the 1960s and 1970s / Barbara Walker
Conclusion: Transnational history and the East-West divide / Michael David-Fox.