Russians in Cold War Australia
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Russians in Cold War Australia

Russians in Cold War Australia

ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERSISBN: 9781666944990
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Edited by Phillip Deery, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Contributions by Ruth Balint, Boris Frankel, Elena Govor, Ellen Gray, Justine Greenwood, Philip Mendes, Mara Moustafine, Ebony Nisson, Jayne Persian, Nicholas Pitt
Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
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Format: HARDBACK
Dimensions: 236 x 158 mm
Weight: 670 g
Pages: 338

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Russian Migrants in Cold War Australia explores the time during the Cold War when Russian displaced persons, including former Soviet citizens, were amongst the hundreds of thousands of immigrants given assisted passage to Australia and other Western countries in the wake of the Second World War. With the Soviet Union and Australia as enemies, skepticism surrounding the immigrants avowed anti-communism introduced new hardships and challenges. This book examines Russian immigration to Australia in the late 1940s and 1950s, both through their own eyes and those of Australias security service (ASIO), to whom all Russian speakers were persons of interest.


Sheila Fitzpatrick is professor at Australian Catholic University.



Phillip Deery is emeritus professor of history at Victoria University in Melbourne.


“A pathbreaking addition to Cold War history and to the history of migration in the Pacific, this deeply researched volume of essays details the post-World War II influx of some 20,000 Russians into Australia and the security dilemmas they presented, and it deftly examines the ideological, political, and personal clashes that ensued.”

— Carole Fink, The Ohio State University

 



“This collection, expertly framed by co-editors Phillip Deery and Sheila Fitzpatrick, demonstrates the intricate relationship between the Cold War and migration. Engagingly – and even movingly - written, it is a model of how an apparently esoteric topic can speak to broader concerns such as perceptions of immigrants as dangerous, the rigors of adaptation and assimilation, the cultural contours of anti-communism, gendered understandings of political agency, and the conflict between humanitarian impulses and security imperatives.”

— Lewis H. Siegelbaum


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