Russians in Cold War Australia: : The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series Ruth Balint Lexington Books

Russians in Cold War Australia

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Russians 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 Australia's security service (ASIO), to whom all Russian speakers were persons of interest.

Introduction: Phillip Deery and Sheila Fitzpatrick
Part One: Russians in Australia: the background
Chapter One: The Russians are Coming”: was Australia Russophobic?, Elena Govor
Part Two: Russian migrants and Australian officialdom
Chapter Two: Manchurian Candidates: Russian Migrants from North China—a Cold War Dilemma for Australian Immigration Authorities, Mara Moustafine
Chapter Three: Naturalization of Russian Migrants in Cold War Australia: Policy and Politics, Justine Greenwood
Chapter Four: Russian Migrants and Australian Intelligence Agencies, Ebony Nilsson
Part Three: Australia and the Cold War
Chapter Five: Australian Perceptions of Russian Women in the Cold War, Ruth Balint
Chapter Six: ASIO and the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism, Philip Mendes
Chapter Seven: Australia and the Soviet Union: Negotiating the Re-exchange of Embassies, 1954-59, Ellen Gray
Part Four: Right-wing politics
Chapter Eight: Russian Anti-Communists: NTS in Australia, Sheila Fitzpatrick
Chapter Nine: Evgeniia Kazanskaia/Shirinskaia: Community Journalism as Anti-Communist Action, Nicholas Pitt
Chapter Ten: Russians, Ukrainians and the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, Jayne Persian
Part Five: Persons of interest
Chapter Eleven: Lidia Janovska, Ebony Nilsson
Chapter Twelve: Abraham Frankel, Boris Frankel
Chapter Thirteen: Evdokia Petrov, Phillip Deery
Conclusion: Phillip Deery and Sheila Fitzpatrick
About the Contributors

Product details

Published	22 Feb 2024
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	338
ISBN	9781666944990
Imprint	Lexington Books
Illustrations	1 BW Photo
Dimensions	236 x 158 mm
Series	The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Phillip Deery

Anthology Editor

Sheila Fitzpatrick

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Ruth Balint

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Phillip Deery

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Sheila Fitzpatrick

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Boris Frankel

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Elena Govor

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Ellen Gray

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Justine Greenwood

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Philip Mendes

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Mara Moustafine

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Ebony Nilsson

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Jayne Persian

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Nicholas Pitt

“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