From imperial revenants to Cold War victims:'Red repatriates' from the Soviet Union and the making of the new Japan, 1949-1952

Muminov, Sherzod (2017) From imperial revenants to Cold War victims:'Red repatriates' from the Soviet Union and the making of the new Japan, 1949-1952. Cold War History, 17 (4). pp. 425-442. ISSN 1468-2745

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Abstract

When over half a million former Imperial Japanese Army soldiers returned home from long captivity in Soviet labour camps in the late 1940s, they brought back more than their memories of hardship and humiliation. In post-war society, the Siberian returnees were the uncomfortable remnants of the failed Japanese Empire; yet it was their brush with the communist enemy that caused suspicion and dragged them into the domestic political struggles. In this article, I use the experiences of Siberian internees as a lens to reconsider Japan’s formative post-war decade, when the onset of the Cold War eclipsed the inconvenient legacies of empire.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	empire,cold war origins,soviet union,japan,forced labour camps,sdg 8 - decent work and economic growth ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/decent_work_and_economic_growth
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Global & Transnational History Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Centre for Japanese Studies
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	02 Aug 2018 09:30
Last Modified:	07 Jun 2025 23:45
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/67942
DOI:	10.1080/14682745.2017.1324849

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