Bibliograph

Eleven winters of discontent, the Siberian internment and the making of a new Japan, Sherzod Muminov

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Eleven winters of discontent, the Siberian internment and the making of a new Japan, Sherzod Muminov

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Eleven winters of discontent

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1240494636

Responsibility statement

Sherzod Muminov

Sub title

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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

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

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