Eleven winters of discontent : the Siberian internment and the making of a new Japan

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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780674986435
ISBN: 0674986431
ISBN: 9780674269705
ISBN: 9780674269699
ISBN: 0674269705
ISBN: 0674269691
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 370 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022.
Copyright: �2022

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:january.24 Description based upon print version of record. Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.