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Russians in Cold War Australia

Edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Phillip Deery - Contributions by Ruth Balint; Phillip Deery; Sheila Fitzpatrick; Boris Frankel; Elena Govor; Ellen Gray; Justine Greenwood; Philip Mendes; Mara Moustafine; Ebony Nilsson; Jayne Persian and Nicholas Pitt

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.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 338 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-66694-499-0 • Hardback • February 2024 • $130.00 • (£100.00)
978-1-66694-500-3 • eBook • February 2024 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
Series: The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
Subjects: History / World, History / Australia & New Zealand, History / Modern / 20th Century, History / Russia / Soviet Era

Sheila Fitzpatrick is professor at Australian Catholic University.

Phillip Deery is emeritus professor of history at Victoria University in Melbourne.

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 China—a 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

“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


Russians in Cold War Australia

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Summary
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  • 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.

Details
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  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 338 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
    978-1-66694-499-0 • Hardback • February 2024 • $130.00 • (£100.00)
    978-1-66694-500-3 • eBook • February 2024 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
    Series: The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
    Subjects: History / World, History / Australia & New Zealand, History / Modern / 20th Century, History / Russia / Soviet Era
Author
Author
  • Sheila Fitzpatrick is professor at Australian Catholic University.

    Phillip Deery is emeritus professor of history at Victoria University in Melbourne.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • 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 China—a 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

Reviews
Reviews
  • “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


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