Lenin's Legacy Down Under

New Zealand's Cold War

• Author(s): Alexander Trapeznik, Aaron Fox,
• Publisher: University of Otago Press
• Pages: 247
• ISBN_10: 1877276901
  ISBN_13: 9781877276903
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , History / Australia & New Zealand , History / Historiography , History / Modern / 20th Century / General , History / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War , History / Oceania , Political Science / General , Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism , Political Science / International Relations / General , Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations ,

Description:... V.I. Lenin once described New Zealand as "the country at the end of the world." Distance notwithstanding, the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 in Russia had significant and lasting effects on New Zealand throughout the twentieth century. This book assesses that experience, from the October Revolution, through the Cold War, to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Drawing on declassified New Zealand, Russian, Chinese, American and Australian sources, the contributors evaluate the impact of the Cold War on New Zealand's foreign policy and domestic affairs. Each chapter analyzes a different facet: the Cold War world, defense policy, the Communist Party of New Zealand and the Communist International, the New Zealand labor movement and international communism, Western intelligence agencies and the cases against Ian Milner and Dr. Sutch, "Russophobia" from the Tsars to Stalin, and a New Zealand diplomat's first-hand view of the Soviet Union and the new Russian Federation. Lenin's Legacy Down