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1 online resource |
| Summary |
The Cold War was a turbulent time to grow up in: family ties were tested, friendships were torn apart, and new beliefs forged out of the ruins of old loyalties. In this book, through 12 evocative stories of childhood and early adulthood in Australia during the Cold War years, writers from vastly different backgrounds explore how global political events affected the intimate space of home, family life, and friendships. Some writers were barely in their teens when they felt the first touches of their parents & rsquo; political lives, both on the Left and the Right. Others grew up in households well attuned to activism across the spectrum, including anticommunism, workers & rsquo; rights, anti-Vietnam War, antiapartheid, and women & rsquo;s rights. Sifting through the key political and social developments in Australia from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, including the referendum to ban the Communist Party of Australia, the rise of & ldquo;the Movement & rdquo; and the Labor split, and postwar migration, this book is a powerful and poignant telling of the ways in which the political is personal. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. An intimate and foreign affair / Martin Krygier -- 2. The workers united will never be defeated! / Valerie Cooms -- 3. Caught out: Edna and Jack Ryan and the 1951 referendum / Lyndall Ryan -- 4. Troubled reflections on my father / John Docker -- 5. In the middle of a dream / Peter Manning -- 6. My Cold War / Patrick Brislan -- 7.A war I did not know about that influenced me so much / Rodney Cavalier -- 8. Scenes from my Cold War / Mark Aarons -- 9. Calwell How we survived 'the Movement' / Mary Elizabeth -- 10. Growing up and living with the Cold War / Ron Witton -- 11.A political life / George Zangalis -- 12. The Cold War as remembered by the children of the Old Left / Sheila Fitzpatrick. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Cold War -- Anecdotes.
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Cold War -- Influence.
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Cold War -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Cold War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Australia.
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Australia -- History -- 1945-1965.
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Australia -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes.
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Australia -- Social conditions -- 1945-1965.
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Australia -- Politics and government -- 1945-1965.
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Australia -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
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HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand. |
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century. |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General. |
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Manners and customs |
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Politics and government |
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Social aspects |
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Social conditions |
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War -- Influence |
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War -- Moral and ethical aspects |
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Australia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRv8PPH7gCqhkJ8DK8bM |
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Cold War (1945-1989) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vBbvhYhcM6fy9r83JBX |
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1945-1989 |
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Biographies
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Anecdotes
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History
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Biographies.
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Curthoys, Ann, 1945- editor.
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Damousi, Joy, 1961- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781742241777 (electronic bk.) |
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1742241778 (electronic bk.) |
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9781742246932 (electronic bk.) |
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1742246931 (electronic bk.) |
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