Anti-communist minorities in the U.S.
Subtitle: political activism of ethnic refugees
By: edited by Ieva Zake.
Contributors: Zake, Ieva.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Communist countries -- History -- 20th century; Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Political investigation -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
Description: This volume takes a completely new look at two controversial topics: American anti-Communism and the Cold War. First, it reveals the little known history of anti-Communism in the US from the point of view of ethnic refugee/émigré groups, and also offers insight into the lives of minority groups that have hitherto not received scholarly attention, often due to their politically controversial position. The book consists of chapters dedicated to particular ethnic groups, as well as an introduction and conclusion. The discussed groups include Latvians, Ukrainians, Albanians, Bulgarians, Slovaks, Vietnamese, Among and Cubans, possibly also Hungarians or Romanians. The introduction provides the historical and sociological framework, and the conclusion undertakes a comparative analysis of ethnic anti-Communism and refugee politics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Polish American Congress, Polish Americans and the politics of anti-; title: Communism / Donald Pienkos; title: Fighting Moscow from afar : Ukrainian-Americans and the Evil Empire / Myron Kuropas; title: The American Armenians' Cold War : the divided response to Soviet Armenia / Benjamin F. Alexander; title: One goal, many paths : internal and external struggles of the Hungarian immigrants / Judith Fai-Podlipnik; title: The highs and lows of Czech and Slovak emigre activism / Prokop Tomek; title: Multiple fronts of the cold war : ethnic anti-communism of Latvian emigre / Ieva Zake; title: Small, but vociferous : Bulgarian ethnic anti-communist groups / Vasil Paraskevov; title: "The voice of the silenced peoples" : the assembly of captive European nations / Anna Mazurkiewicz; title: "Better dead than red" : anti-communist politics among Vietnamese Americans / C.N. Le; title: Hmong anti-communism at home and abroad / Chia Youyee Vang; title: Conflict and cooperation : Cuban exile anti-communism and the United States, 1960-2000 / Jessica Gibbs and Alex Goodall.