Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick,Phillip Deery
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666945003
Russians in Cold War Australia by Sheila Fitzpatrick,Phillip Deery Pdf
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.