Cold War captives : imprisonment, escape, and brainwashing

Cold War captives imprisonment, escape, and brainwashing

This provocative history of early cold war America recreates a time when World War III seemed imminent. Headlines were dominated by stories of Soviet slave laborers, brainwashed prisoners in Korea, and courageous escapees like Oksana Kasenkina who made a "leap for freedom" from the Soviet...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carruthers, Susan L. (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press c2009.
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Cold War > Social aspects > United States.
Captivity narratives.
Political prisoners > History > 20th century.
Repatriation > History > 20th century.
Defection > History > 20th century.
Brainwashing > History > 20th century.
Cold War in mass media.
Cold War in motion pictures.
Cold War in literature.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798329406719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Between Camps
  • 1. Upper East Side Story: Repatriation, Romance, and Cold War Mobilization
  • 2. Bloc-Busters: The Politics and Pageantry of Escape from the East
  • 3. Stalin's Slaves: The Rise of Gulag Consciousness
  • 4. First Captive in a Hot War: The Case of Robert Vogeler
  • 5. Prisoners of Pavlov: Korean War Captivity and the Brainwashing Scare
  • Epilogue: Returns and Repercussions
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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