Vladimír Ležák-Borin: Cold War warrior
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Vladimír Ležák-Borin: Cold War warrior |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 1417 |
Book Title | Recovering history through fact and fiction: forgotten lives |
Authors | |
Author | Persian, Jayne |
Editors | Baker, Dallas John, Brien, Donna Lee and Sulway, Nike |
Page Range | 78-87 |
Chapter Number | 7 |
Number of Pages | 10 |
Year | 2017 |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Place of Publication | Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom |
ISBN | 9781527503250 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.cambridgescholars.com/recovering-history-through-fact-and-fiction |
Abstract | Vladimir Ležák Borin was a post-war enigma, a Czech migrant to Australia who was much more than he seemed. Arriving at the tail end of the post-war Displaced Persons (DP) Scheme, through which more than 170,000 Central and Eastern Europeans arrived in Australia as International Refugee Organisation-sponsored refugees, Borin was described by contemporaries as a 'fraud' and of the 'political underworld' (Richards 1978, 11). Borin’s somewhat convoluted journeys, both political and geographical, tells us something of the life of the politically elite, and active, displaced person. Exploring the life story of on an outlier of the DP Scheme in Australia, this chapter will focus on Borin’s life story as a type of micro-history, or even a foray into speculative biography, in order to tease out broader themes. |
Keywords | displaced persons, migration history, Cold War, Czech, Australia |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 430302. Australian history |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Arts and Communication |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q48v5/vladim-r-le-k-borin-cold-war-warrior
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