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Displaced Comrades

By Ebony Nilsson

Displaced Comrades

By Ebony Nilsson

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
274
Release Date:
2025-06-26
Publication Date:
2025-06-26
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1350378429
ISBN13:
9781350378421
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
421 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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