Cold War captives
Subtitle: imprisonment, escape, and brainwashing
By: Susan L. Carruthers.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780520257306; 9780520257313
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
Description: "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 Consulate in New York. Full of fascinating and forgotten stories, Cold War Captives explores a central dimension of American culture and politics - the postwar preoccupation with captivity."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Between camps; title: Upper East Side story : repatriation, romance, and Cold War mobilization; title: Bloc-busters : the politics and pageantry of escape from the East; title: Stalin's slaves : the rise of gulag consciousness; title: First captive in a hot war : the case of Robert Vogeler; title: Prisoners of Pavlov : Korean War captivity and the brainwashing scare; title: Epilogue: Returns and repercussions.