Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 370 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Introduction: In the prisons Stalin built -- Beyond the nation: the Siberian internment in global history -- Embodiments of empire: the internees as imperial vestiges -- Bedbug country chronicles: the Soviet Union in Japanese camp memoirs -- Cold, hunger, and hard labor: Japanese experiences in the Soviet camps -- Skillful application of propaganda principles: POWs and Soviet reeducation -- In the Cold War crossfire: returnees and the superpower confrontation -- We cannot die as slaves: the struggle for recognition and compensation -- Epilogue: Breaking boundaries |
Summary |
"In this book, Sherzod Muminov draws on extensive Japanese, Russian, and English archives-including more than a hundred memoirs and survivor interviews-to piece together a portrait of life in Siberia and in Japan after World War II. Eleven Winters of Discontent reveals the real people underneath facile tropes of the prisoner of war and expands our understanding of the Cold War front. This book is the first comprehensive English-language study of the captivity of more than 600,000 Japanese former servicemen in the Soviet labor camps in the wake of World War II"-- Provided by publisher |
Analysis |
Cold War |
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Communism |
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Gulag |
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Imperial Japanese Army |
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Indoctrination |
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Japanese Empire |
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Kwantung Army |
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Labor camps |
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Manchuria |
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Occupation-era Japan |
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POW camps |
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Postwar Japan |
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Red purge |
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Reverse course |
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Siberian Internment |
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Soviet-Japanese |
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Stalin |
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World War II |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
Subject |
Prisoners of war -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
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Prisoners of war -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- History -- 20th century
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Prisoner-of-war camps -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- History -- 20th century
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Cold War.
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HISTORY / Military / World War II
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Prisoner-of-war camps
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Prisoners of war
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Japan
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Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0674269691 |
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0674269705 |
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9780674269705 |
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9780674269699 |
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