"This book 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"--
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.
This book 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.
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This fine collection brings it home to us, while opening a valuable perspective on the way historical upheavals on distant continents can shape the lives of ordinary people and change the face of a nation. * Slavonic and East European Review * A pathbreaking addition to Cold War history and to the history of migration in the Pacific, this deeply researched volume of essays details the post-World War II influx of some 20,000 Russians into Australia and the security dilemmas they presented, and it deftly examines the ideological, political, and personal clashes that ensued. -- Carole Fink, The Ohio State University This collection, expertly framed by co-editors Phillip Deery and Sheila Fitzpatrick, demonstrates the intricate relationship between the Cold War and migration. Engagingly and even movingly - written, it is a model of how an apparently esoteric topic can speak to broader concerns such as perceptions of immigrants as dangerous, the rigors of adaptation and assimilation, the cultural contours of anti-communism, gendered understandings of political agency, and the conflict between humanitarian impulses and security imperatives. -- Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Introduction: Phillip Deery and Sheila Fitzpatrick
Part One: Russians in Australia: the background
Chapter One: The Russians are Coming: was Australia Russophobic?, Elena
Govor
Part Two: Russian migrants and Australian officialdom
Chapter Two: Manchurian Candidates: Russian Migrants from North Chinaa Cold
War Dilemma for Australian Immigration Authorities, Mara Moustafine
Chapter Three: Naturalization of Russian Migrants in Cold War Australia:
Policy and Politics, Justine Greenwood
Chapter Four: Russian Migrants and Australian Intelligence Agencies, Ebony
Nilsson
Part Three: Australia and the Cold War
Chapter Five: Australian Perceptions of Russian Women in the Cold War, Ruth
Balint
Chapter Six: ASIO and the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism,
Philip Mendes
Chapter Seven: Australia and the Soviet Union: Negotiating the Re-exchange of
Embassies, 1954-59, Ellen Gray
Part Four: Right-wing politics
Chapter Eight: Russian Anti-Communists: NTS in Australia, Sheila Fitzpatrick
Chapter Nine: Evgeniia Kazanskaia/Shirinskaia: Community Journalism as
Anti-Communist Action, Nicholas Pitt
Chapter Ten: Russians, Ukrainians and the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations,
Jayne Persian
Part Five: Persons of interest
Chapter Eleven: Lidia Janovska, Ebony Nilsson
Chapter Twelve: Abraham Frankel, Boris Frankel
Chapter Thirteen: Evdokia Petrov, Phillip Deery
Conclusion: Phillip Deery and Sheila Fitzpatrick
About the Contributors
Sheila Fitzpatrick is professor at Australian Catholic University.
Phillip Deery is emeritus professor of history at Victoria University in Melbourne.
