Russian Anzacs in Australian HistoryElena Govor has given voice to a part of Australian cultural history that until now has been silent. Extraordinarily, it was men born in the former Russian Empire that constituted the most numerous group in the First Australian Imperial Force, after those of Anglo or Celtic background--almost one thousand Russian Anzacs. This book is a history of Russian multiethnic communities in Australia, and passionately rediscovers ties, formerly severed, between the children and grandchildren of Russian Anzacs and their Russian past. |
Contents
PART ONE ORIGINS | 15 |
Ethnic and other Russians Byelorussians | 21 |
Poles | 38 |
Finns | 49 |
Jews | 55 |
PART TWO | 65 |
The battalion that might have been | 82 |
0 Among the first Anzacs | 95 |
PART THREE LIFE | 183 |
CHAPTER 9 Coming home | 193 |
Between the land and the sea | 202 |
Making a go of it | 215 |
CHAPTER 10 Becoming Australian | 221 |
Pressures to assimilate | 227 |
A sense of belonging | 238 |
Blending in | 244 |
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