Reds Under the Bed: ASIO and an Unusual Bunch of Suspects - Couverture souple

Komesaroff, Michael

 
9781925272987: Reds Under the Bed: ASIO and an Unusual Bunch of Suspects
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1925272982 ISBN 13 : 9781925272987
Editeur : Hybrid Publishers, 2018

Synopsis

Who were the Reds under the bed? Why did ASIO snoop on several members of this migrant family struggling to set up a new life in Australia?

ASIO maintained a vast library of files on half a million citizens, most of whom were never a threat to Australia's security. Through meticulous research, Michael Komesaroff has been able to sift through a multitude of records which were kept on his family, and discover why. This is not only an account of one family's activities, but more broadly, a history of the widespread fear of the presence and influence of communist sympathisers in Australia in the twentieth century.

'A well researched and absorbing record of a respected family, highlighting its pursuit by ASIO. A great read.' - Bernard Rechter, former director of the Monash University Centre for Jewish Civilisation

'Michael Komesaroff's painstakingly researched but entertainingly written book dives deeply into two intriguing worlds - that of his Lithuanian/Ukranian Jewish migrant family, and that of the intelligence bureaucracy that conducted substantial surveillance on a generation of family members. Its focus illuminates - more clearly than many encyclopaedic accounts of the secret world - the dangers of mistaking dissent for disloyalty.' - Rowan Callick, author of Party Time: Who Runs China, and How

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Éditeur
Hybrid Publishers
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1925272982
ISBN 13 
9781925272987
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
216
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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