Displaced Comrades

Displaced Comrades
Author: Ebony Nilsson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2023-11-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350378402

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.

Lost Souls

Lost Souls
Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2024-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 069123003X

A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth century’s biggest refugee crises When World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as its citizens were outside the borders of the USSR, mostly in the Western-occupied zones of Germany and Austria. These “displaced persons,” or DPs—Russians, prewar Soviet citizens, and people from West Ukraine and the Baltic states forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939—refused to repatriate to the Soviet Union despite its demands. Thus began one of the first big conflicts of the Cold War. In Lost Souls, Sheila Fitzpatrick draws on new archival research, including Soviet interviews with hundreds of DPs, to offer a vivid account of this crisis, from the competitive maneuverings of politicians and diplomats to the everyday lives of DPs. American enthusiasm for funding the refugee organizations taking care of DPs quickly waned after the war. It was only after DPs were redefined—from “victims of war and Nazism” to “victims of Communism”—in 1947 that a solution was found: the United States would pay for the mass resettlement of DPs in America, Australia, and other countries outside Europe. The Soviet Union protested this “theft” of its citizens. But it was a coup for the United States. The choice of DPs to live a free life in the West, and the West’s welcome of them, became an important theme in America’s Cold War propaganda battle with the Soviet Union. A compelling story of the early Cold War, Lost Souls is also a rare chronicle of a refugee crisis that was solved.

Russians in Cold War Australia

Russians in Cold War Australia
Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2024-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1666945005

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.

Red Benediction

Red Benediction
Author: Joseph Armstead
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2006-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595415849

They're out there, in the dark, at the edges of your vision and haunting your dreams... alien demonic beings who hide behind the anonymous, normal faces of the people in your town. It is a paranoid's nightmare come to life. The Infernals are amongst us. Homicide Detective Glenn Saunders investigates a horrific series of murders and becomes shockingly aware of the existence of an underground society of psychotics and sexual deviants in his town, people who are members of a covert, cultish group who serve THE INFERNALS, ageless, shadowy beings from beyond the threshold of normal Space and Time. Complicating the dogged detective's battle against alien Evil, a group of amnesiac strangers arrive in town, mind-slaves of The Infernals, on the run from deadly crimes committed in their former lives. The arrival of these fugitives signals a countdown to a ceremony of mass murder that will allow open the floodgates to horror, allowing The Infernals free reign in our world. Saunders' investigation is further threatened by the fact that he, himself, is slowly being seduced into the service of The Infernals, infected by their madness, and his quest for justice soon becomes a journey for redemption. They're out there, in the dark, but they're coming closer, ever closer, their Evil eclipsing the Light... The Horror is here.

Yesterday

Yesterday
Author: Lucy Floyd
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1783012382

YESTERDAY is an epic novel of eight extraordinary months in 1968, a compelling chronicle of love and revolt that spans the turbulent backdrops of a Paris reeking of tear gas and crawling with riot police, and a Prague crushed under the tracks of Soviet tanks.

The Ardly Effect

The Ardly Effect
Author: Mitis Green
Publisher: Brambling Books
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2002-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0954956311

Inhabitants of two moons orbiting a gas giant realise they have a common past. Their search for their roots reveals more than they had bargained for and the truth they find 'out there' illuminates a side to human nature that is probably best left in the dark. "Absorbing storytelling, sprinkled with humour and surprises." "A remarkable debut SF novella filled with thought provoking ideas."

Perversion and Modern Japan

Perversion and Modern Japan
Author: Nina Cornyetz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2010-01-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134031548

Perversion and modern Japan focuses on the psychoanalytic approach to the study of modern Japan. Using a wide range of psychoanalytic approaches the contributors to this book have brought together chapters on everything from the Ajase complex to underpants, from fascist modernism in literature to internet-based suicide pacts.

Displaced Children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953

Displaced Children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953
Author: Nick Baron
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2017-04-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004310746

Across Eastern Europe and Russia in the first half of the twentieth century, conflict and violence arising out of foreign and civil wars, occupation, revolutions, social and ethnic restructuring and racial persecution caused countless millions of children to be torn from their homes. Displaced Children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953 addresses the powerful and tragic history of child displacement in this region and the efforts of states, international organizations and others to ‘re-place’ uprooted, and often orphaned, children. By analysing the causes, character and course of child displacement, and examining through first-person testimonies the children’s experiences and later memories, the chapters in this volume shed new light on twentieth-century nation-building, social engineering and the emergence of modern concepts and practices of statehood, children’s rights and humanitarianism. Contributors are: Tomas Balkelis, Rachel Faircloth Green, Gabriel Finder, Michael Kaznelson, Aldis Purs, Karl D. Qualls, Elizabeth White, Tara Zahra

Displaced

Displaced
Author: Stephan Abarbanell
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062484508

Echoing the fiction of Joseph Kanon, Alan Furst, and Daniel Silva, this deeply intelligent debut literary thriller—set within a world still reeling from World War II—explores how the actions of a few can change the course of history. British-occupied Palestine, 1946: Elderly writer Elias Lind isn’t convinced by reports that his scientist brother, Raphael, died in a concentration camp. Too frail to search for Raphael himself, Elias persuades a contact in the Jewish resistance to send someone in his place. Lilya joined the resistance movement to help form a new state, not to waste her time on a fruitless chase across a war-ravaged continent at the request of a frail, most likely delusional, old man. As her comrades make their final preparations for a major operation, a bitter Lilya must accept her orders and embark on her journey to Europe. She is traveling as a member of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, one of the largest aid organizations for Jewish survivors—many of whom survived the Nazis only to find themselves with no family or home to return to. If Raphael is alive, odds are she will find him among the refugees trapped in displaced persons camps and prevented from immigrating to Palestine by the British. Lilya’s search leads her from the hushed corridors of London’s Whitehall, home to the British Secret Intelligence Service, to the haunted, rubble-strewn strasses of Munich and Berlin. Visiting Föhrenwald, an overcrowded and underfunded DP camp, she makes a breakthrough. But Lilya isn’t the only person pursuing the missing man. Someone has been mirroring her every move—a dangerous adversary who will go to drastic lengths to find Raphael first.