What did you do in the Cold War, daddy? : personal stories from a troubled time / edited by Ann Curthoys & Joy Damousi. Personal stories from a troubled time.

Collection type	Library
Author	Curthoys, Ann, 1945-, editor.; Damousi, Joy, 1961-, editor.;
Call Number	994.05 W555
Document type	Monograph
Year	2014.
Pagination	297 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher	NewSouth,
Note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-289) and index. 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 twelve 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 pare nts' political lives, both on the Left and the Right. Others grew up in households well attuned to activism across the spectrum, including anti-communism, workers' rights, anti-Vietnam War, anti-apartheid and women's rights. Sifting through the key politi cal 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 'the Movement' and the Labor split, and post-war migration, this book is a powerful and poignant telling of the ways in which the political is personal.
Place made	Sydney :

Abstract

Introduction / Ann Curthoys and Joy Damousi -- Martin Krygier / An intimate and foreign affair -- Valerie Cooms / The workers united will never be defeated! -- Lyndall Ryan / Caught out: Edna and jack Ryan and the 1951 referendum -- John Docker / Trou bled reflections on my father -- Peter Manning / In the middle of a dream -- Patrick Brislan / My Cold war -- Rodney Cavalier / A war I did not know about that influenced me so much -- Mark Aarons / Scenes from my Cold war -- Mary Elizabeth Calwell / How we survived 'the Movement' -- Ron Witton / Growing up and living with the Cold war -- George Zangalis / A political life -- Sheila Fitzpatrick / The Cold war as remembered by the children of the Old Left.