Russians in Cold War Australia

Sheila Fitzpatrick editor Phillip Deery editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Lexington Books

Published:22nd Feb '24

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Russians in Cold War Australia cover

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

ISBN: 9781666944990

Dimensions: 236mm x 158mm x 25mm

Weight: 621g

338 pages