Title Cold War captives : imprisonment, escape, and brainwashing / Susan L. Carruthers.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009]
	©2009

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 335 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Summary	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 and escape. Captivity became a way to understand everything.
Subject	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.
	HISTORY -- Modern.
	HISTORY -- United States -- General.
	Brainwashing. (OCoLC)fst00837790
	Captivity narratives. (OCoLC)fst00846616
	Cold War in literature. (OCoLC)fst00866988
	Cold War in mass media. (OCoLC)fst01906902
	Cold War in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst00866989
	Defection. (OCoLC)fst01741509
	Political prisoners. (OCoLC)fst01069636
	Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
	Repatriation. (OCoLC)fst01094786
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Carruthers, Susan L. (Susan Lisa). Cold War captives. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2008047712
ISBN	9780520944794 (electronic bk.)
	0520944798 (electronic bk.)

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