Cold War Defectors

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Cold War Defectors

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 240 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780228028017

Full Description

Cold War defections were highly public spectacles, often dominating headlines for weeks and fuelling propaganda about the irresistible allure of freedom. Yet only a minority of defectors were political dissidents before leaving; despite how they may have publicly represented their actions, most defectors crossed borders for reasons ranging from economic opportunity to a spur-of-the-moment decision.

Cold War Defectors redefines the political and personal stakes of defection, a complex and historically specific Cold War phenomenon that largely came to an end with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The first part of the book traces citizens from the communist East who fled to the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, often at great personal risk and from unexpected locations across the globe. The second part turns to other key waypoints of defection - Berlin, Hong Kong, and Vietnam - where movement occurred in both directions and on a striking scale. Together the chapters reveal a wide range of individual experiences and government responses, showing how states struggled to distinguish refugees, migrants, and defectors. They also highlight the role of non-state actors, the framing power of the media, and the agency of defectors themselves, whether they were elite insiders trading political or cultural capital for asylum or ordinary individuals navigating familiar tropes of Cold War escape.

Spanning multiple continents and linking defection to espionage, intelligence, and media culture, Cold War Defectors presents a riveting portrait of what it meant to switch sides in a divided world.

Contents

Figures vii
Acknowledgments ix
Note on Translations and Transliterations xi

Introduction: Cold War Defectors 3
Kristy Ironside and Lorenz M. Lüthi

Part One: People

1 Defectors' Reliability: Perception vs Reality 25
Kevin P. Riehle

2 Scientists, Sailors, Spies, and Functionaries: The Intelligence Value of Canada's Cold War Defectors 49
Sam Eberlee

3 Anatoly Kuznetsov's Literary Defection 78
Kristy Ironside

Part Two: Places

4 Defection in Cold War Berlin, 1948-61 121
Lorenz M. Lüthi

5 Neutral Grounds: Colonial Hong Kong and the Politics of Defection in the Cold War 153
Laura Madokoro

6 Letting Refugees, Defectors, and Infiltrated Agents in Nationalist Vietnam 175
Phi-Van Nguyen

Afterword: Defection as Migration in the Global Cold War 201
Erik R. Scott

Contributors 215
Index 217