Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West
Autor Ebony Nilssonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 iun 2025
This book explores the lives of left-wing Soviet refugees who fled the Cold War to settle in Australia, and uncovers how they adjusted to life under surveillance in the West. As Cold War tensions built in the postwar years, many of these refugees happily resettled in the West as model refugees, proof of capitalist countries' superiority. But for a few, this was not the case. Displaced Comrades provides an account of these Cold War misfits, those refugees who fled East for West, but remained left-wing or pro-Soviet.
Drawing on interviews, government records and surveillance dossiers from multiple continents this book explores how these refugees' ideas took root in new ways. As these radical ideas drew suspicion from western intelligence these everyday lives were put under surveillance, shadowed by the persistent threat of espionage. With unprecented access to intelligence records, Nilsson focuses on how a number of these left-wing refugees adjusted to life in Australia, opening up a previously invisible segment of postwar migration history, and offering a new exploration of life as a Soviet 'enemy alien' in the West.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350378421
ISBN-10: 1350378429
Pagini: 274
Ilustrații: 10 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 154 x 232 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350378429
Pagini: 274
Ilustrații: 10 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 154 x 232 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Introduction
1. The Russian Social Club
2. Boris: 'I am a Soviet Citizen and so I will stay'
3. Jerzy: Pied Piper of Discontented Workers
4. Juris: From Latvian Legionnaire to Kolkhoznik
5. Sasha: KCB Residents and Orthodox Priests
6. Natalia & Lydia: Harbin Women Abroad
7. Jacob: 'A Jew First and Foremost'
8. Surveillance, Spies and Informants
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
1. The Russian Social Club
2. Boris: 'I am a Soviet Citizen and so I will stay'
3. Jerzy: Pied Piper of Discontented Workers
4. Juris: From Latvian Legionnaire to Kolkhoznik
5. Sasha: KCB Residents and Orthodox Priests
6. Natalia & Lydia: Harbin Women Abroad
7. Jacob: 'A Jew First and Foremost'
8. Surveillance, Spies and Informants
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
An important contribution ... The ASIO's methods and approaches have been examined in dedicated literature that focuses on intelligenceand the agency's activities as part of the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance, but very fewstudies exist that place them within the broader history of displacement and human experiencesand transformations caused by occupation and war. Nilsson's study skillfully fillsthis gap.
Underpinned by meticulous research, but always circumspect in drawing conclusions where the evidence is elusive, this book is essential reading for scholars interested in the early Cold War, the Russian diaspora, and the wide range of migrant experience. It is superbly copyedited and engagingly written.
This work represents a solid, stylish academic undertaking, with intricate analysis across a spectrum of elusive and challenging sources ... A timely contribution done with much care on a topic that seems to reinvent itself, just like its characters did.
The book is an important contribution to studies of leftist communities in the West during the Cold War Period.
'Nilsson makes an original and distinctive contribution to multiple fields, including Cold War history and diaspora studies, with her choice of an unusual vantage point: the transnational lives of left-leaning émigrés from the Soviet Union in Cold War Australia. Her engagingly written and insightful portraits of her individual characters pay close attention to their particular personal and political choices, and the work as a whole sheds an unusual and intriguing light on how these travellers from war-torn and revolutionary backgrounds negotiated with the very different world of post-war Australia, making their own mark on its political and cultural fabric. A highly readable and often surprising study.'
Underpinned by meticulous research, but always circumspect in drawing conclusions where the evidence is elusive, this book is essential reading for scholars interested in the early Cold War, the Russian diaspora, and the wide range of migrant experience. It is superbly copyedited and engagingly written.
This work represents a solid, stylish academic undertaking, with intricate analysis across a spectrum of elusive and challenging sources ... A timely contribution done with much care on a topic that seems to reinvent itself, just like its characters did.
The book is an important contribution to studies of leftist communities in the West during the Cold War Period.
'Nilsson makes an original and distinctive contribution to multiple fields, including Cold War history and diaspora studies, with her choice of an unusual vantage point: the transnational lives of left-leaning émigrés from the Soviet Union in Cold War Australia. Her engagingly written and insightful portraits of her individual characters pay close attention to their particular personal and political choices, and the work as a whole sheds an unusual and intriguing light on how these travellers from war-torn and revolutionary backgrounds negotiated with the very different world of post-war Australia, making their own mark on its political and cultural fabric. A highly readable and often surprising study.'