Research Catalog

Title

Cold War captives [electronic resource] : imprisonment, escape, and brainwashing / Susan L. Carruthers.

Author

Carruthers, Susan L. (Susan Lisa)

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

Details

Description

1 online resource (xiii, 335 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Cold War captives (Online)

Alternative Title

Cold War captives (Online)

Subject

• 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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Introduction: Between camps -- Upper East Side story : repatriation, romance, and Cold War mobilization -- Bloc-busters : the politics and pageantry of escape from the East -- Stalin's slaves : the rise of gulag consciousness -- First captive in a hot war : the case of Robert Vogeler -- Prisoners of Pavlov : Korean War captivity and the brainwashing scare.

LCCN

2008047712

OCLC

ssj0000335933

Author

Carruthers, Susan L. (Susan Lisa)

Title

Cold War captives [electronic resource] : imprisonment, escape, and brainwashing / Susan L. Carruthers.

Imprint

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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