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Cold War Captives
Susan Lisa Carruthers
其他書名
Imprisonment, Escape, and Brainwashing
出版University of California Press, 2009
主題History / GeneralHistory / United States / GeneralHistory / WorldHistory / Modern / 20th Century / GeneralHistory / Modern / 20th Century / Cold WarPolitical Science / History & TheoryPolitical Science / Political FreedomPsychology / GeneralSocial Science / Emigration & ImmigrationSocial Science / Popular Culture
ISBN05202573089780520257306
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sktEbU1ccRMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This provocative history of early cold war America recreates a time when World War III seemed imminent. Headlines were dominated by stories of Soviet slave laborers, brainwashed prisoners in Korea, and courageous escapees like Oksana Kasenkina who made a "leap for freedom” from the Soviet Consulate in New York. Full of fascinating and forgotten stories, Cold War Captives explores a central dimension of American culture and politics--the postwar preoccupation with captivity. "Menticide,” the calculated destruction of individual autonomy, struck many Americans as a more immediate danger than nuclear annihilation. Drawing upon a rich array of declassified documents, movies, and reportage--from national security directives to films like The Manchurian Candidate--his book explores the ways in which east-west disputes over prisoners, repatriation, and defection shaped popular culture. Captivity became a way to understand everything from the anomie of suburban housewives to the "slave world” of drug addiction. Sixty years later, this era may seem distant. Yet, with interrogation techniques derived from America's communist enemies now being used in the "war on terror,” the past remains powerfully present.