P Deery
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 15138 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | P Deery |
| NOMBRES | P |
| APELLIDO | Deery |
| FIRMA | DEERY P |
| AFILIACIONES | Victoria School of Management |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2887-8910 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
A Calculating Blow
On the evening of 11 August 1937, night shift workers at Melbourne's two gasworks introduced an industrial tradition unknown to Victoria: an extended stay-in strike. It was to last another 15 days involving nearly 1,000 gasworkers, followed by a brief, second stay-in strike that ended on 2 September. In a community heavily dependent on the regular supply of gas, the strike caused widespread hardship. It was notable for the unwavering solidarity a…
Beyond the red shoe
A fictionalised account of the Petrov Affair begins with its most famous incident.This occurred on the tarmac of Sydney's Mascot airport on 19 April 1954: Evdokia knew this crowd was here for her.They were hunting her.They were here to prevent her escaping through the terminal, onto the plane Her escorts had revolvers in their jackets.If it was Moscow's instruction, they'd do away with her here She could not believe it, the number of people, the …
Vladimir Petrov
During the Cold War, defectors from the Russian Intelligence Services to the West were of critical importance. They exposed and neutralised hundreds of Soviet agents who had penetrated government departments and democratic institutions. Stretching from Anatoli Granovsky in 1946 to Oleg Gordievsky in 1985, these Soviet defectors were highly prized for the intelligence they provided to security services. Ranked amongst the most valuable at the time…
"An Active and Conscious Agent"? Ric Throssell and Soviet Espionage
This article examines the controversial Cold War case of Ric Prichard Throssell, the son of the famed Australian writer and
The Unreliable Witness
This historical note examines the role of a witness-informer at the 1954-55 Royal Commission on Espionage. That witness was Clarence William Dakin, an individual overlooked by historians, and his background, testimony and motivations are discussed. As with ex-communists in the USA during McCarthyism, who successfully incriminated their former comrades, ASIO expected his evidence would prove explosive. However, he dashed the hopes of ASIO, disappo…
Stuart Macintyre (1947-2021)
Book Notes
“Bordering on Treason”? Sir Raphael Cilento and Pre‐Second World War Fascism in Australia
Sir Raphael Cilento died on 16 April 1985 at the age of ninety‐two. The notice in the Canberra Times spoke of Cilento's “worldwide” reputation in tropical medicine, his contribution to the public health service in Queensland, and his role with the United Nations in the immediate post‐war years. In short, he was an “eminent son of Australia”. But Sir Raphael Cilento's halo has been tarnished by his persistent eugenicist beliefs and his later assoc…
The Cold War
The Cold War: A World History . By Odd Arne Westad (London: Allen Lane, 2017), pp. 710. £30.00
Listening for Subversion
Because of its conviction that the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) was a subversive organisation whose members, meetings and policies needed close monitoring, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) intercepted telephone conversations, installed listening devices in offices, filmed and photographed Party members, and employed agents to penetrate state committees, branches and front organisations. This research note reveals for…
“A Most Important Cadre”
The Australian labour movement has a long history of its ranks being infiltrated by the security services. Rarely, however, are we permitted inside undercover operations. To protect undercover agents, files remain classified and agents’ identities and activities are shrouded in secrecy. This article uses, for the first time, a trove of declassified Australian Security Intelligence Organisation files of one of its agents, Anne Neill, whose target …
Red Professor
Red Professor: The Cold War Life of Fred Rose. By Peter Monteath and Valerie Munt (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2015), pp.ix + 368. AU$39.95 (pb)
The Prime Minister and the Bomb
The efforts of the Liberal government led by John Gorton to acquire a locally built nuclear deterrent stretch back into the 1950s when Robert Menzies preferred to rely on the American or British nuclear umbrella for protection. Gorton took a different view and the advocates of an independent Australian nuclear capability rejoiced upon his elevation to the Liberal leadership. We argue that Gorton's ambitions advanced as far as they did in the latt…
Political Theatre and the State
For much of the twentieth century, branches of the New Theatre in Australia presented left-wing theatre within a culture that was resistant to their ideas. A novel mix of conventional theatre forms, experimental performative styles, agitational propaganda and Communist theories of ‘art as a weapon’ produced theatre that was responsive to international issues, infused with social comment, and oppositional in orientation. The larger Melbourne and S…
Red Apple
Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - The Doctor: Edward Barsky Chapter 3 - The Writer: Howard Fast Chapter 4 - The Professors: Bradley and Burgum Chapter 5 - The Composer: Dimitri Shostakovich Chapter 6 - The Lawyer: O.
Lock up Holt, Throw away Ky
Nguyen Cao Ky’s trip to Australia in January 1967 was politically contentious and morally ambiguous. It threw a sharp spotlight on the vast deployment of state resources by a democratic government to protect a representative of a military junta. This article analyses, for the first time, Ky’s visit. It will examine the circumstances, the preparations, and the reception, both officially and on the streets. It will also examine the elaborate securi…
Labor, Loyalty and Peace
Between the two world wars, the conservative parties dominated federal politics but Labor governments often ruled in the states. Since most key issues concerning Anzac commemoration occurred at state level, the result was that the Australian Labor Party (ALP) had little choice but to grapple with the emergent culture of Anzac commemoration. This article explores two case studies in the 1920s, one from Victoria and the other from Western Australia…
The Menzies Government, the American Alliance and the Cuban Missile Crisis
This paper questions the traditional view of the Australian‐American relationship: that Australian dependency entailed unequivocal support for American foreign policy. It uses a particular Cold War event — the Cuban Missile Crisis — to examine the extent to which the reaction of the Australian government conformed to the general perception of immediate and absolute endorsement of the Kennedy administration's position. The paper will argue that th…
Securing justice? The Australian campaign to save the Rosenbergs
“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed the Rosenbergs”, recalled Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar. Others recalled this event differently: as legal murder and a flagrant miscarriage of justice. The electrocution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in June 1953, on a charge of conspiracy to commit espionage, was unprecedented in the history of the United States and aroused international outrage. Although there are scattered studies of the …
Finding His Kronstadt
The scholarship on the impact on communists of Khrushchev's “secret speech” to the twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956 is limited. Generally it is located within broader studies of organisational upheavals and ideological debates at the leadership level of communist parties. Rarely has there been analysis of the reverberations at the individual level. Consistent with James R. Barrett's pioneering approach, this p…
Larry Adler and the Cold War
In July 1951 the overseas British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) wrote to the internal British Security Service (MI5) seeking information about an American citizen living in London. The request was prefaced with a sentence that this essay seeks to explain: L. ADLER cannot return to the United States with any hope of earning a living there, owing to the allegations against him that he is communist sympathiser. We have no trace of him, and shoul…
Book Note
Running with the Hounds’
This paper is an anatomy of an inquisition. It examines the Cold War persecution of Edwin Berry Burgum, a university professor and literary theorist. Whilst his professional competence was consistently applauded, his academic career was abruptly destroyed. His ‘fitness to teach’ was determined by his political beliefs: he was a member of the American Communist Party. The paper argues that New York University, an institution that embodied liberal …
Book Note
Political Activism, Academic Freedom and the Cold War
Professor Lyman Bradley was chairman of the German Department at New York University and an executive member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, listed by the Attorney General as a subversive organization. In 1951 he was fired and his long academic career ended. His dismissal, the first by the New York University on political grounds, raises broader concerns about the character of university governance and the fragility of academic freed…
Malaya, 1948
In 1948, at a time of severe economic austerity, the British Labour government committed itself to a costly and protracted campaign against a Communist foe in the Far East, despite not having any U.S. support for the endeavor. Clement Attlee's government in Britain argued that the Malayan Emergency (1948–1960) was necessary to counter Soviet attempts to use the local Communist party in support of Moscow's expansionist designs. Subsequently, many …
Dear Mr. Brown’
The historiography of the Cold War has generally overlooked issues of ethnicity and immigration. By focusing on the case of one left-wing migrant from Cyprus, this article retrieves from historical obscurity the battles for citizenship rights that many migrants faced in Cold War Australia. The article throws light on the serious implications that existed for those who fell foul of the security establishment and argues that, on the principle of de…
The Terminology of Terrorism
Although Cold War propaganda is now the subject of close scholarly scrutiny, the main method by which it was communicated – language – has been overlooked. The Malayan Emergency illustrates how the British government grappled with the issue of political terminology within the broader context of anti-communist propaganda. This article will analyse the use of political language; the change from ‘bandit’ to ‘communist terrorist’; and the problems of…
Running with the Hounds’
This paper is an anatomy of an inquisition. It examines the Cold War persecution of Edwin Berry Burgum, a university professor and literary theorist. Whilst his professional competence was consistently applauded, his academic career was abruptly destroyed. His ‘fitness to teach’ was determined by his political beliefs: he was a member of the American Communist Party. The paper argues that New York University, an institution that embodied liberal …
Covert Propaganda and the Cold War Britain and Australia 1948-1955
The accepted historical view of British-Australian relations during the early Cold War emphasizes compliance, cooperation and dependency. Australia's acquiescence to British pressure to establish an effective security service and her readiness to permit British testing of atomic weapons on Australian soil are assumed to typify this close if subordinate relationship. The two countries, after all, shared a mutual interest in combating communism, gl…
The secret battalion’
This article argues that the Attlee Labour government's depiction of communist influence within the trade union movement and, particularly, on the docks in the late 1940s, was neither as irrational nor deluded as many historians have alleged. When Attlee's response is understood within the context of Cold War developments, the Communist party emerges not as the innocent victim of government smears, but as a contributor to Labour's fears. The arti…
Chifley, the Army and the 1949 Coal Strike
Red Apple
Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - The Doctor: Edward Barsky Chapter 3 - The Writer: Howard Fast Chapter 4 - The Professors: Bradley and Burgum Chapter 5 - The Composer: Dimitri Shostakovich Chapter 6 - The Lawyer: O.
Lock up Holt, Throw away Ky
Nguyen Cao Ky’s trip to Australia in January 1967 was politically contentious and morally ambiguous. It threw a sharp spotlight on the vast deployment of state resources by a democratic government to protect a representative of a military junta. This article analyses, for the first time, Ky’s visit. It will examine the circumstances, the preparations, and the reception, both officially and on the streets. It will also examine the elaborate securi…
No Lasting Peace? Labor, Communism and the Cominform
The formation of the Cominform in 1947 was a decisive moment in the Cold War. Although many rank-and-file activists in the Labor and Communist parties in Great Britain and Australia continued to cooperate with each other, the formal relationship between the two parties sharply deteriorated. In Britain, the formation of the Cominform shattered the Communist Party's hopes of post-war class peace. Communists' critical attitude to the Labour Party be…
Scientific Freedom and Post-War Politics
The Cold War was a tough time for some scientists.Most stayed in the no-man's-land of political neutrality.Others bunkered down with the Left.A few went further and joined, openly, the Communist Party.This provided cold war warriors with abundant and usually lethal ammunition.This article examines the position of two Australian scientists whose professional lives were blighted or thwarted due
Science, Security and the Cold War
The Big Strikes, Queensland 1889-1965
Chifley, the Army and the 1949 Coal Strike
Coal, Class and Community. The United Mineworkers of New Zealand, 1880-1960
Communism, security and the cold war
Labor, communism and the cold war
When a young ALP Industrial Group leader was thrown from a ferry, allegedly by communists, into Sydney Harbour during bitter Cold War battles inside the labour movement, it was the culmination of an extraordinary career involving duplicity, mendacity and political intrigue. This article peers into one year, 1949, of the crowded life of William Thomas Dobson. In doing so, it enables a fuller understanding of how Groupers, communists and security a…
Confronting the Cominform
In the voluminous records of the Information Research Department (IRD), there is one slim file that attracts immediate attention. The IRD was the top secret propaganda department of the British Foreign Office created in early 1948.1 It soon became a crucial instrument in Britain's covert ideological offensive against the Soviet Union during Cold War. The files of the IRD are currently being released by the Public Record Office in London, and thei…
"A Very Present Menace"? Attlee, Communism and the Cold War
With the end of the Cold War and the further opening of archives, the role of Western communist parties and their relationship with the former Soviet Union has been the subject of fresh scrutiny. This article examines the conviction of the British Labour Government and its security services that the Communist Party of Great Britain represented, at least in the early Cold War period, a "very present menace". The article discusses the policies of t…
Britain and the Cold War
The secret battalion’
This article argues that the Attlee Labour government's depiction of communist influence within the trade union movement and, particularly, on the docks in the late 1940s, was neither as irrational nor deluded as many historians have alleged. When Attlee's response is understood within the context of Cold War developments, the Communist party emerges not as the innocent victim of government smears, but as a contributor to Labour's fears. The arti…
Science, Security and the Cold War
Science, Security and the Cold War
Books
The Country of Lost Children: An. Australian Anxiety. By Peter Pierce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii + 211. $24.95 paper. life over Death: Tasmanians and Tuberculosis. By Michael Roe. Tasmanian Historical Research Association: Hobart, 1999. Pp. 234. $22.00 paper. The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia. By Joy Damousi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. x + 212. $29.95 paper…
Scientific Freedom and Post-War Politics
The Cold War was a tough time for some scientists.Most stayed in the no-man's-land of political neutrality.Others bunkered down with the Left.A few went further and joined, openly, the Communist Party.This provided cold war warriors with abundant and usually lethal ammunition.This article examines the position of two Australian scientists whose professional lives were blighted or thwarted due
Heritage Report
Covert Propaganda and the Cold War Britain and Australia 1948-1955
The accepted historical view of British-Australian relations during the early Cold War emphasizes compliance, cooperation and dependency. Australia's acquiescence to British pressure to establish an effective security service and her readiness to permit British testing of atomic weapons on Australian soil are assumed to typify this close if subordinate relationship. The two countries, after all, shared a mutual interest in combating communism, gl…
Crusade or Conspiracy? Catholics and the Anti-Communist Struggle in Australia
The split in the Labor Party in the mid 1950s was the culmination of an enormous struggle for the soul of the party, waged by fair means or foul. - Locked in bitter ideological dispute were, on the one hand, a small but energetic group of Communists and their sympathisers and, on the other, anti-Communist forces led by B.A. Santamaria. - Santamaria's role, and the activities of his semi-clandestine - organisation, the Movement, created enormous c…
The Sickle and the Scythe
A portrait of J.D.'Jack' Blake written by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) in early 1954 stated that the intensity of Blake's commitment to communism and the severity of his tuberculosis meant that he laboured 'under both the sickle of the Soviet and the scythe of Father Time'.1 The latter was obliged to wait another 46 years but the sickle of the Soviet, in the hands of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) leadership, w…
The Dove Flies East
In 1950 the Cold War turned hot in Korea, the threat of atomic annihilation hovered menacingly and the spectre of another world war haunted Europe. The establishment of the World Peace Council that year was one response to these fears. In November 1950 the Council decided to hold a World Peace Congress in Sheffield. The British Labour government sabotaged this Congress and forced it to shift to Warsaw. This article analyses this event which, to d…
Menzies, the cold war and the 1953 convention on peace and war
In the early 1950s the imminence and inevitability of a third world war was widely accepted. America had lost its atomic monopoly, Russia promoted itself as the defender of world peace against the war‐mongering West and Korea had turned the Cold War hot. In Australia, the Menzies government prepared the country for combat while the fledgling peace movement mobilised public opinion against war. This article will examine the contrasting reactions o…
Behind enemy lines
This article focuses primarily on Australian government responses to the 1952 Peace Conference for Asia and the Pacific Regions. Because the conference was to be held in Peking, it was the subject of immense controversy: Chinese communists were fighting Australian soldiers in Korea and Australian peace activists, most communist or 'fellow travellers', sought to travel behind the 'bamboo curtain'. In this context, the Menzies government's policies…
The Terminology of Terrorism
Although Cold War propaganda is now the subject of close scholarly scrutiny, the main method by which it was communicated – language – has been overlooked. The Malayan Emergency illustrates how the British government grappled with the issue of political terminology within the broader context of anti-communist propaganda. This article will analyse the use of political language; the change from ‘bandit’ to ‘communist terrorist’; and the problems of…
Dear Mr. Brown’
The historiography of the Cold War has generally overlooked issues of ethnicity and immigration. By focusing on the case of one left-wing migrant from Cyprus, this article retrieves from historical obscurity the battles for citizenship rights that many migrants faced in Cold War Australia. The article throws light on the serious implications that existed for those who fell foul of the security establishment and argues that, on the principle of de…
No Lasting Peace? Labor, Communism and the Cominform
The formation of the Cominform in 1947 was a decisive moment in the Cold War. Although many rank-and-file activists in the Labor and Communist parties in Great Britain and Australia continued to cooperate with each other, the formal relationship between the two parties sharply deteriorated. In Britain, the formation of the Cominform shattered the Communist Party's hopes of post-war class peace. Communists' critical attitude to the Labour Party be…
Such Was Life
A Divided Soul’? The Cold War Odyssey of O. John Rogge
In 1948 O. John Rogge, a prominent American liberal, was a contender for the Progressive Party's vice-presidential nomination. He was then a man of the Left: an activist in the international peace movement, a champion of radical causes and a defender of organizations deemed subversive by the Department of Justice. In 1951 he persuaded his client to turn government witness in the Rosenberg espionage trial and was converted into ‘Rogge the Rat’ by …
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