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

At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union captured 600,000 Japanese prisoners of war and interned them in Siberian labor camps. Sherzod Muminov details the soldiers' varied experiences of imprisonment, including their indoctrination in Soviet dogma and the shock and alienation of repatriation to a homeland transformed under US occupation.

About the author

Sherzod Muminov is Associate Professor of Japanese History at the University of East Anglia and winner of the inaugural Murayama Tsuneo Memorial Prize.

Summary

At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union captured 600,000 Japanese prisoners of war and interned them in Siberian labor camps. Sherzod Muminov details the soldiers’ varied experiences of imprisonment, including their indoctrination in Soviet dogma and the shock and alienation of repatriation to a homeland transformed under US occupation.

Product details

• Authors: Sherzod Muminov, Muminov Sherzod
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9780674986435
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98643-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Second World War, Asian History, History of the Americas, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / Pacific Theater, HISTORY / Russia / General