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Russian Migrants 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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""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."" ""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.""

"""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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Sheila Fitzpatrick is professor at Australian Catholic University. Phillip Deery is emeritus professor of history at Victoria University in Melbourne.

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