The yellow peril in the Cold War / David Seed -- The Cold War representation of the West in Russian literature / Andrei Rogachevskii -- 'Is it chaos? Or is it a building site?' / Chris Megson -- Beyond the apocalypse of closure / Daniel Cordle -- The Reds and the Blacks / M. Keith Booker and Dubravka Juraga -- Marxist literary resistance to the Cold War / Alan Wald -- Poetry, politics and war / Dana Healy -- Remembering war and revolution on the Maoist stage / Xiaomei Chen -- Revolution and rejuvenation / Hazel A. Pierre -- An anxious triangulation / Marcel Cornis-Pope -- 'Lifting each other off our knees' / Mary K. DeShazer -- Outwitting the Politburo / Piotr Kuhiwczak -- The anti-American / Brian Diemert -- The excluded middle / Jean Franco