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Book Displaced Comrades

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  • Author : Ebony Nilsson
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2023-11-02
  • ISBN : 1350378402
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Displaced Comrades written by Ebony Nilsson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Russians in Cold War Australia

Download or read book Russians in Cold War Australia written by Sheila Fitzpatrick and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Abstract of General Orders and Proceedings of the Annual Encampment

Download or read book Abstract of General Orders and Proceedings of the Annual Encampment written by Grand Army of the Republic. Dept. of New York and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Abstract of General Orders and Proceedings of the     Annual Encampment  Department of New York  Grand Army of the Republic

Download or read book Abstract of General Orders and Proceedings of the Annual Encampment Department of New York Grand Army of the Republic written by Grand Army of the Republic. Department of New York and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documents of the Senate of the State of New York

Download or read book Documents of the Senate of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Notes from an Afrikan P O W  Journal

Download or read book Notes from an Afrikan P O W Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Displaced

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  • Author : Stephan Abarbanell
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2017-11-07
  • ISBN : 0062484508
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Displaced written by Stephan Abarbanell and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Echoing the fiction of Joseph Kanon, Alan Furst, and Daniel Silva, this deeply intelligent debut literary thriller—set within a world still reeling from World War II—explores how the actions of a few can change the course of history. British-occupied Palestine, 1946: Elderly writer Elias Lind isn’t convinced by reports that his scientist brother, Raphael, died in a concentration camp. Too frail to search for Raphael himself, Elias persuades a contact in the Jewish resistance to send someone in his place. Lilya joined the resistance movement to help form a new state, not to waste her time on a fruitless chase across a war-ravaged continent at the request of a frail, most likely delusional, old man. As her comrades make their final preparations for a major operation, a bitter Lilya must accept her orders and embark on her journey to Europe. She is traveling as a member of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, one of the largest aid organizations for Jewish survivors—many of whom survived the Nazis only to find themselves with no family or home to return to. If Raphael is alive, odds are she will find him among the refugees trapped in displaced persons camps and prevented from immigrating to Palestine by the British. Lilya’s search leads her from the hushed corridors of London’s Whitehall, home to the British Secret Intelligence Service, to the haunted, rubble-strewn strasses of Munich and Berlin. Visiting Föhrenwald, an overcrowded and underfunded DP camp, she makes a breakthrough. But Lilya isn’t the only person pursuing the missing man. Someone has been mirroring her every move—a dangerous adversary who will go to drastic lengths to find Raphael first.

Book Displaced by War

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9781903427927
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Displaced by War written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Proceedings     Annual Encampment

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  • Author : Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. Dept. of Massachusetts
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1949
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Annual Proceedings Annual Encampment written by Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. Dept. of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Billboard

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995-05-06
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-05-06 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Book Student Zionist

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1946
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Student Zionist written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cavalry of the Heartland

Download or read book Cavalry of the Heartland written by Edward G. Longacre and published by Westholme Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia prosecuted the war in the East for the Confederacy, the Army of Tennessee fought in the West, ranging over a tremendous expanse during the course of the Civil War, from southern Ohio and eastern Kentucky all the way to Georgia and the Carolinas. Unlike Lee's army, however, the Army of Tennessee suffered at the hands of a series of uninspired commanders and had fewer impressive victories. It did have, however, arguably the best cavalry of any army in the war in terms of numbers and leadership. Led by some of the most colorful officers of the Civil War-- the brilliant, passionate Nathan Bedford Forrest, the flamboyant but erratic John Hunt Morgan, and the quietly competent "Fightin' Joe" Wheeler-- and grabbing headlines for daring raids, such as Morgan's foray into Ohio, the mounted forces of the Army of Tennessee developed a strategy of a highly mobile fighting unit that could be deployed rapidly in strength to strike deep behind enemy lines and maneuver at a moment's notice during a battle, tactics that were to have the most impact on military operations in the future. The author chronicles in this book the army's top generals failed to recognize the battle-winning potential of their cavalry and instead sent them off on sideshow operations rather than deploy them consistently to assist the main body's efforts. Based on a wide array of research materials including the unpublished writings of more than 300 officers and enlisted men, this book is the only book-length study of the strategy and tactics of the Army of Tennessee's mounted forces from its inception in the spring of 1861 to its final bow at Bentonville, North Carolina, four years later. Throughout, numerous campaigns and battles are described in full detail, including Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro (Stones River), Tullahoma, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Nashville, and the Carolinas.

Book The Workers State

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  • Author : Mark Pittaway
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2012-10-28
  • ISBN : 0822978121
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book The Workers State written by Mark Pittaway and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2012-10-28 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1956, Hungarian workers joined students on the streets to protest years of wage and benefit cuts enacted by the Communist regime. Although quickly suppressed by Soviet forces, the uprising led to changes in party leadership and conciliatory measures that would influence labor politics for the next thirty years. In The Workers' State, Mark Pittaway presents a groundbreaking study of the complexities of the Hungarian working class, its relationship to the Communist Party, and its major political role during the foundational period of socialism (1944-1958). Through case studies of three industrial centers--Újpest, Tatabánya, and Zala County--Pittaway analyzes the dynamics of gender, class, generation, skill level, and rural versus urban location, to reveal the embedded hierarchies within Hungarian labor. He further demonstrates how industries themselves, from oil and mining to armaments and textiles, possessed their own unique labor subcultures. From the outset, the socialist state won favor with many workers, as they had grown weary of the disparity and oppression of class systems under fascism. By the early 1950s, however, a gap between the aspirations of labor and the goals of the state began to widen. In the Stalinist drive toward industrialization, stepped up production measures, shortages of goods and housing, wage and benefit cuts, and suppression became widespread. Many histories of this period have focused on Communist terror tactics and the brutal suppression of a pliant population. In contrast, Pittaway's social chronicle sheds new light on working-class structures and the determination of labor to pursue its own interests and affect change in the face of oppression. It also offers new understandings of the role of labor and the importance of local histories in Eastern Europe under communism."--Project Muse.

Book Walking with Comrades

Download or read book Walking with Comrades written by Arundhati Roy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The terse, typewritten note slipped under my door in a sealed envelope confirmed my appointment with “India’s single biggest internal security challenge”. I’d been waiting for months to hear from them...’ In early 2010, Arundhati Roy travelled into the forests of Central India, homeland to millions of indigenous people, dreamland to some of the world’s biggest mining corporations. The result is this powerful and unprecedented report from the heart of an unfolding revolution.

Book Displaced Persons

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  • Author : Ghita Schwarz
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2011-08-23
  • ISBN : 0061881775
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Displaced Persons written by Ghita Schwarz and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1945, Pavel Mandl, a Polish Jew recently liberated from a concentration camp, finds himself among similarly displaced persons gathered in the Allied occupation zones of a defeated Germany. Possessing little besides a map, a few tins of food, and a talent for black-market trading, he must scrape together a new life in a chaotic community of refugees, civilians, and soldiers. With fellow refugees Fela, a young widow, and Chaim, a resourceful teenager with impressive smuggling skills, Pavel establishes a makeshift family, as together they face an uncertain future. Eventually the trio immigrates to the United States, where they grapple with past traumas that arise again in the everyday moments of lives no longer dominated by the need to endure, fight, hide, or escape. Ghita Schwarz’s Displaced Persons is an astonishing novel of grief, anger, and survival that examines the landscape of liberation and reveals the interior despairs and joys of immigrants shaped by war and trauma.

Book Transformation and Continuity in the Spanish Communist Party  1954 1964

Download or read book Transformation and Continuity in the Spanish Communist Party 1954 1964 written by Sasha David Pack and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Who s who in Lebanon

Download or read book Who s who in Lebanon written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: