Research Catalog

Title

Lenin's legacy down under : New Zealand's Cold War / edited by Alexander Trapeznik and Aaron Fox.

Publication

Dunedin, N.Z. : University of Otago Press, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Trapeznik, Alexander
• Fox, Aaron

Description

247 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This book reassesses New Zealand's experience of the Cold War, from the Russian Revolution of October 1917 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The contributors utilise declassified New Zealand, Russian, Chinese, American and Australian sources to re-evaluate the impact of the Cold War on New Zealand's foreign policy and domestic affairs from 1917 to the early 1990s."--Back cover.

Subjects

• History
• New Zealand > Social conditions
• New Zealand > Foreign relations > 1945-
• New Zealand > Politics and government > 1945-
• Cold War

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-240) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The new Cold War history / John Lewis Gaddis -- New Zealand in the Cold War world / Barry Gustafson -- New Zealand defence policy during the Cold War / Jim Rolfe -- 'Grandfather, parents and little brother': a study of centre-periphery relations / Alexander Trapeznik -- The New Zealand labour movement and international communism 1921 to 1938 / James Bennett -- Defining the 'red menace': "Russophobia" and New Zealand-Russian relations from the Tsars to Stalin / Tony Wilson -- The pedigree of truth: western intelligence agencies versus Ian Frank George Milner and William Ball Sutch / Aaron Fox -- The war that never was: New Zealand-China relations in the Cold War era / Anne-Marie Brady -- New Zealand through some Soviet eyes during the Cold War / John Goodliffe -- Russia through New Zealand eyes / Gerald McGhie.

ISBN

1877276901

OCLC

55667255

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library