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Australia in the Russian Mirror

Author : Elena Govor
Publisher : Melbourne University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australia in the Russian Mirror written by Elena Govor and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 1997 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia in the Russian Mirror is a study of Russian images of Australia from 1770 to 1919. Elena Govor, a recent emigrant from the former Soviet Union and leading authority on Russian writings on Australia, has drawn on over 1700 sources to present a revealing study of Russians' perceptions of Australia from its earliest settlement to its development and emergence as a nation. Voices of Russian visitors, armchair writers and emigres weave together both to create and to refute 'the Australian legend'. The naval officers who visited Port Jackson in the early 1800s came from the well-educated Russian nobility. They praised the transportation of convicts to Australia and the efforts of the authorities to reform them. But Russian emigrant labourers arrested and deported for participating in the Red Flag Riots in Brisbane in 1919 painted a very different picture of Australia's hostile judicial system. How and why such diversity of perceptions has evolved makes Australia in the Russian Mirror compelling reading.

Inside the Wilderness of Mirrors

Author : Paul Dibb
Publisher : MUP Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780522874150
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Inside the Wilderness of Mirrors written by Paul Dibb and published by MUP Academic. This book was released on 2018 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Cold War Paul Dibb worked with the highest levels of Australian and American intelligence, and was one of very few Australian officials to be given the top-secret security clearance for access to Pine Gap. Only the most senior intelligence officers in both the US and Australia held this clearance--and even then on a strict 'need to know' basis. Inside the Wilderness of Mirrors is Paul's unique insight into how Australia saw the threat from the Soviet Union during the Cold War era and beyond. This insider's account of Australian defence strategy reveals the crucial importance of the US-Australian base at Pine Gap and why Moscow targeted it for nuclear attack, and how it felt to be an expert on the Soviet Union at a time when those who dared to study the Soviet Union were necessarily subject to suspicion from their Australian colleagues. Inside the Wilderness of Mirrors concludes by examining the ways in which contemporary Russia presents a continuing threat to the international order.

Russians in Cold War Australia

Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666945005
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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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.

Russian Anzacs in Australian History

Author : Elena Govor
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868408569
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Russian Anzacs in Australian History written by Elena Govor and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinarily, it was men born in the former Russian Empire that constituted the most numerous group in the First Australian Imperial Force, after those of Anglo-Celtic background. This book, a history of Russin multiethnic communities in Australia, follows the hidden lives of these Anzacs through and beyond the war.

"White Russians, Red Peril"

Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100043222X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book "White Russians, Red Peril" written by Sheila Fitzpatrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 20,000 ethnic Russians migrated to Australia after World War II – yet we know very little about their experiences. Some came via China, others from refugee camps in Europe. Many preferred to keep a low profile in Australia, and some attempted to ‘pass’ as Polish, West Ukrainian or Yugoslavian. They had good reason to do so: to the Soviet Union, Australia’s resettling of Russians amounted to the theft of its citizens, and undercover agents were deployed to persuade them to repatriate. Australia regarded the newcomers with wary suspicion, even as it sought to build its population by opening its door to more immigrants. Making extensive use of newly discovered Russian-language archives and drawing on a lifetime’s study of Soviet history and politics, award-winning author Sheila Fitzpatrick examines the early years of a diverse and disunited Russian-Australian community and how Australian and Soviet intelligence agencies attempted to track and influence them. While anti-Communist ‘White’ Russians dreamed a war of liberation would overthrow the Soviet regime, a dissident minority admired its achievements and thought of returning home.

A New Rival State?

Author : Alexander Massov
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760462292
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book A New Rival State? written by Alexander Massov and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Rival State? is a unique collection of dispatches written in 1857–1917 by the Russian consuls in Melbourne to the Imperial Russian Embassy in London and the Russian Foreign Ministry in St Petersburg. Written by eight consuls, they offer a Russian view of the development of the settler colonies in the late nineteenth century and the first years of the federated Commonwealth of Australia. They cover the federalist movement, the changing domestic political situation, labour politics, the treatment of the Indigenous population, the ‘White Australia’ policy, Australia’s defensive capacity and foreign policy as part of the British Empire. The bulk of the material is drawn from the Russian-language collection The Russian Consular Service in Australia 1857–1917, edited by Alexander Massov and Marina Pollard (2014), using documents from the archive of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Russian Mirror

Author : Melissa Trimble Smith
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9789057550256
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Russian Mirror written by Melissa Trimble Smith and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three playwrights are presented together in this volume On the Road to Ourselves, Elena Gremina Behind the Mirror and Olga Mikhailova Russian Dream.

East Central European Migrations During the Cold War

Author : Anna Mazurkiewicz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110610639
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book East Central European Migrations During the Cold War written by Anna Mazurkiewicz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An extremely useful and much needed survey. Over eleven chapters, authors from eight countries cover the complex history of migration from the perspective of Central and Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1993. Following in the footsteps of Klaus Bade’s Encyclopedia of European Migrations, the authors make extensive use of sources in national languages, while providing an extensive overview of population movements in the region between the Baltic, Black, and Adriatic Seas. The individual chapters shed light on phenomena overlooked in other volumes, including individual state reactions to various migratory phenomenon, and the political, economic, and ideological consequences of human movement. The chapters of this volume are uniform not only in their informative nature, but also in suggesting new pathways for in-depth research." Adam Walaszek, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland "Eastern Europe is an emblematic space of mobility and its Cold War history cannot be told without considering migration from and into the countries of the region. This volume comes at a timely moment and provides a uniquely comprehensive account, full with useful information for further research. It will be a must-read both for migration studies scholars and for area specialists." Ulf Brunnbauer, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany "The Handbook is a gift to students of migration on three counts. It gathers the expertise of scholars fluent in the languages – and familiar with the archives – of Eastern and Central Europe. Thus it brings the multi-layered and complex histories of movement beyond the flat descriptor of "Soviet bloc" or Eastern European migrations. The Handbook is both rich and lucid, presenting in-depth materials on the European twentieth-century, on one hand, and organizing each chapter in a similar way, offering the reader transparently comparable histories. From Estonia south to Albania, and from the USSR west to the GDR, each chapter elucidates a complex migration history distinguished by national politics, ethnic composition, and economics – moving from the cataclysmic impacts of World War II to the international migrations and politics of Cold War movement, as well as the politics of Cold War emigrants themselves. Each chapter ends with an epilogue on post-1989 international migrations and a valuable addendum on published and archival sources. Finally, the Handbook models the kind of high quality work produced by international scholarly cooperation at its best." Leslie Page Moch, Michigan State University Table of contents Introduction (Anna Mazurkiewicz) Albania (Agata Domachowska) Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (Pauli Heikkilä) Bulgaria (Detelina Dineva) Czechoslovakia (Michael Cude and Ellen Paul) Germany (Bethany Hicks) Hungary (Katalin Kádár Lynn) Poland (Sławomir Łukasiewicz) Romania (Beatrice Scutaru) Ukraine (Anna Fiń) USSR (Alexey Antoshin) Yugoslavia (Brigitte Le Normand)

Twelve Days at Nuku Hiva

Author : Elena Govor
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824837517
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Twelve Days at Nuku Hiva written by Elena Govor and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1803 two Russian ships, the Nadezhda and the Neva, set off on a round-the-world voyage to carry out scientific exploration and collect artifacts for Alexander I’s ethnographic museum in St. Petersburg. Russia’s strategic concerns in the north Pacific, however, led the Russian government to include as part of the expedition an embassy to Japan, headed by statesman Nikolai Rezanov, who was given authority over the ships’ commanders without their knowledge. Between them the ships carried an ethnically and socially disparate group of men: Russian educated elite, German naturalists, Siberian merchants, Baltic naval officers, even Japanese passengers. Upon reaching Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas archipelago on May 7, 1804, and for the next twelve days, the naval officers revolted against Rezanov’s command while complex crosscultural encounters between Russians and islanders occurred. Elena Govor recounts the voyage, reconstructing and exploring in depth the tumultuous events of the Russians’ stay in Nuku Hiva; the course of the mutiny, its resolution and aftermath; and the extent and nature of the contact between Nuku Hivans and Russians. Govor draws directly on the writings of the participants themselves, many of whom left accounts of the voyage. Those by the ships’ captains, Krusenstern and Lisiansky, and the naturalist George Langsdorff are well known, but here for the first time, their writings are juxtaposed with recently discovered textual and visual evidence by various members of the expedition in Russian, German, Japanese—and by the Nuku Hivans themselves. Two sailor-beachcombers, a Frenchman and an Englishman who acted as guides and interpreters, later contributed their own accounts, which feature the words and opinions of islanders. Govor also relies on a myth about the Russian visit recounted by Nuku Hivans to this day. With its unique polyphonic historical approach, Twelve Days at Nuku Hiva presents an innovative crosscultural ethnohistory that uncovers new approaches to—and understandings of—what took place on Nuku Hiva more than two hundred years ago.

Tolstoi: Art and Influence

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004533435
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Tolstoi: Art and Influence written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editors Robert Reid and Joe Andrew present eleven contributions by international scholars which highlight Tolstoi’s influence on his contemporaries and posterity through his fiction and thought. A figure of Tolstoi’s intellectual stature has naturally inspired an impressive range of responses. These encompass stage versions of his novels (War and Peace and Resurrection), communes founded in his name, and translations which have sought to capture the essence of his works for successive generations. Tolstoi is also compared in this volume with his contemporaries in chapters on Dostoevskii, Veselitsakaia, Rozanov and Elizabeth Gaskell. The reader of this work will gain new and unique insights into an unparalleled genius of world literature, especially into his immense cultural reach which continues to this day. Contributors: Carol Apollonio, Katherine Jane Briggs, Elena Govor, Nel Grillaert, Susan Layton, Cynthia Marsh, Henrietta Mondry, Richard Peace, Alexandra Smith, Olga Sobolev, Willem Weststeijn, Kevin Windle.

Intercultural Mirrors

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900440130X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Intercultural Mirrors written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Intercultural Mirrors: Dynamic Reconstruction of Identity, the authors suggest that the view of us held by culturally different people provides an essential key to self-understanding and identity remodelling. The book aims at analysing intercultural experiences on a deeper level.

Democracy in a Russian Mirror

Author : Adam Przeworski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107053390
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Democracy in a Russian Mirror written by Adam Przeworski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the current state and the prospects for democracy in Russia in the light of the experience of existing democracies. Posing several challenges to our understanding of democracy, thirteen contributors argue some of the central questions vital to understanding the conditions of emergence and survival of successful democracies.

Tattoo

Author : Nicholas Thomas
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861898231
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Tattoo written by Nicholas Thomas and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2005-04-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popularity of tattoos today is a revival of a practice begun in the late eighteenth century, when Westerners first made contact with the native peoples of the Pacific. The term ‘tattoo’ entered Europe with the publication of Captain Cook’s voyages in the 1770s, and Pacific tattoos became fashionable in the West as sailors, whalers and explorers brought home tattoos from Tahiti, the Marquesas, New Zealand and Polynesia. In recent years these early contacts have been revived, as native tattooists from Oceania have begun tattooing non-Polynesians in Europe, the USA and elsewhere. Tattoo is both a fascinating book about these early Oceanic–European exchanges, that also documents developments up to the present day, and the first to look at the history of tattooing in Oceania itself. Documenting these complex cultural interactions in the first part of the book, the authors move from issues of encounter, representation and exchange to the interventions of missionaries and the colonial state in local tattoo practices. Highly illustrated with many previously unseen images, for example the original voyage sketches of the first Russian circumnavigation of 1803–6, this is a fascinating account of early tattooing and cultural exchange in Oceania, and will appeal to the wide audience interested in the history of tattooing.

Antipodean America

Author : Paul Giles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199301565
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Antipodean America written by Paul Giles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping study that spans two continents and over three hundred years of literary history, Antipodean America identifies the surprising affinites between Australian and American literature.

Geographers

Author : Patrick H. Armstrong
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474226876
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Geographers written by Patrick H. Armstrong and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annual collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known: explorers, independent thinkers and scholars. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life and work and discusses their influence and spread of academic ideas. Each study includes a select bibliography and brief chronology. The work includes a general index and a cumulative index of geographers listed in volumes published to date.

Australian Slavonic and East European Studies

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Slavonic and East European Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Companion to Australian History

Author : Graeme Davison
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Australian History written by Graeme Davison and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Companion contains approximately 1600 entries, ranging from essays of up to 2000 words to succinct, factual entries of 100 words. There are entries on politicians, colonisers, visionaries, newspaper barons, industrialists, explorers, writers, artists, and scientists. All the most famous Australians appear in the Companion, including Don Bradman, Ned Kelly, John Curtin, Joan Sutherland, and Patrick White. There are entries on the states, key institutions, prominent families, and famous or infamous events, such as Gallipoli, the Dismissal, the Rum Rebellion, and the Waterloo Creek Massacre. There are numerous extended essays on key facets of our national life - political, social, cultural, scientific, military, and economic. Readers will find incisive entries on matters such as art, capital punishment, gambling, language, literature, military history, and republicanism."--BOOK JACKET.