Displaced Comrades : Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West
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Nilsson, Ebony Grace. (2024). Displaced Comrades : Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West Bloomsbury Academic.
Authors | Nilsson, Ebony Grace |
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Abstract | 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 unprecedented 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. |
Keywords | Electronic surveillance; United States; Russians; Cold War; History; Government policy; Intelligence service |
ISBN | 978-1-3503-7841-4 |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 1-272 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Jan 2024 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 16 Feb 2024 |
Additional information | Copyright © Ebony Nilsson, 2024. |
Frontmatter and introduction full-text only. | |
Year | 01 Jan 2024 |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/90307/displaced-comrades-politics-and-surveillance-in-the-lives-of-soviet-refugees-in-the-west
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