Peter Monteath, Valerie Munt

Red Professor (eBook, ePUB)

The Cold War life of Fred Rose

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fred Rose's life takes us through rip-roaring tales from Australia's northern frontier to enthralling intellectual tussles over kinship systems and political dramas as he runs rings around his Petrov inquisitors.

More than any other injustice, the abuse of Aborigines leads him into the Communist Party in 1942. His move to academic life in what he insisted on calling the German Democratic Republic made him a dissident against anthropological orthodoxies in the Soviet Bloc as he had been in Australia. Those final three decades also see his informing on his children to his Stasi handlers.

Out of relentless research, Peter Monteath and Valerie Munt present an engrossing portrait of the short twentieth century from Rose's birth during the Great War to his death in Berlin shortly after the Wall comes down. The result is unputdownable for its sweep of events while causing us to reflect on how someone can be heroic and horrendous, appalling and admirable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wakefield Press Pty Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781743051351
• Artikelnr.: 45581776

Autorenporträt

Peter Monteath is Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide. His books include POW: Australian Prisoners of War in Hitler's Reich and Escape Artist: The Incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck. His research for this book took him to archives in Australia, New Zealand and Germany - and to 42nd Street.