Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan

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Dedication
Contents
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Eleven Winters of Discontent
	Introduction: In the Prisons Stalin Built
		The Siberian Internment In History And Memory
		Outline Of The Chapters
	1. Beyond the Nation: The Siberian Internment in Global History
		Victimhood And Subjectivity: Citizenship And Authorship in Cold War Japan
		Writing The Internment’s History In Japan And Abroad
		Toward A Global History Of The Making Of A New Japan
	2. Embodiments of Empire: The Internees as Imperial Vestiges
		Where It All Began: Japan’s Imperial Project in Manchuria and Karafuto
		The Fall Of Manchuria, The Fall Of Empire
		Manchukuo And The Hierarchy of Japanese National Victimhood
	3. Bedbug Country Chronicles: The Soviet Union in Japanese Camp Memoirs
		Defeat
		Deception And Injustice
		The Siberian Trinity Of Suffering
		The Other Soviet Union
	4. Cold, Hunger, and Hard Labor: Japanese Experiences in the  Soviet Camps
		Penal Labor In The USSR: A Prehistory Of The Gupvi
		The Legacies And Imprints of the Gulag on the POW Camp System
		The Case Of Camp No. 188 At Rada, In The Tambov Region
		Japanese Experiences Against The Background of the Archives
		Literature Of Hardship
	5. The Skillful Application of Propaganda Principles: POWs and Soviet Reeducation
		Origins Of The Democratic Movement
		Divide And Entice, Discipline And Punish
		Japanese Reactions To The Democratic Movement
	6. In the Cold War Cross Fire: Returnees and the Superpower Confrontation
		The Tokyo Trial
		Battles Over Repatriation
		Criticizing The Slavery Kingdom
		The Cold War Domestic Storm
		The Tokuda Incident
	7. We Cannot Die as Slaves: The Struggle for Recognition and Compensation
		Internee Activism In The Early Postwar Period
		Saitō Rokurō: The Sisyphus Of Interest Group Politics
		Shadows of the Internment In Contemporary Japanese Society
		Internment Memory In The Service Of The Nation
	Epilogue: Breaking Boundaries
		Breaking Boundaries
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index