Cold War captives : imprisonment, escape, and brainwashing /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Carruthers, Susan L. (Susan Lisa)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
1900 - 1999
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Cold War > Social aspects > United States.
Captivity narratives.
Political prisoners > History > 20th century.
Repatriation > History > 20th century.
Defection > History > 20th century.
Brainwashing > History > 20th century.
Cold War in mass media.
Cold War in motion pictures.
Cold War in literature.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Guerre froide > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Récits de captivité.
Prisonniers politiques > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Rapatriement > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Lavage de cerveau > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Guerre froide dans les médias.
Guerre froide au cinéma.
Guerre froide dans la littérature.
HISTORY > Modern.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Social aspects
Brainwashing
Captivity narratives
Cold War (1945-1989) in literature
Cold War (1945-1989) in mass media
Cold War (1945-1989) in motion pictures
Defection
Political prisoners
Popular culture
Repatriation
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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