1. Ballet and power: Leonid Yakobson in Soviet Russia
2. Beginnings: Learning to be an outsider
3. What is to be done with ballet?
4. Chilling and thawing: Cold war ballet and the anti-Jewish campaign
5. Spartacus
6. Dismantling the hero
7. A company of his own: Privatizing Soviet ballet
8. Totalitarianism, uncertainty, and ballet.