Cold War captives imprisonment, escape, and brainwashing
Susan Carruthers offers a provocative history of early Cold War America, in which she recreates a time when World War III seemed imminent. She shows how central to American opinion at the time was a fascination with captivity & escape. Captivity became a way to understand everything.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
c2009.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31376265*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
