Elena Govor, Russian Anzacs in Australian History, Sydney, UNSW Press in association with NAA, 2005, 310 p., 44 ills

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction: forging the nation
Ripples on the water — the Greshner story
‘Manuscripts do not burn’ — my own story
 

part I ORIGINS
Emerging communities

1 Eastern and western Slavs
Ethnic and other Russians, Byelorussians and Ukrainians
Poles

2 Other Russian subjects
      Baltic peoples
      Finns
      Western Europeans
      Caucasians and other minorities
      Jews

part II WAR
The Russian war

3 Joining up
Enlist or starve
The battalion that might have been

4 Among the first Anzacs
Gallipoli
Egypt
From Egypt to Syria

5 The Western Front
      1916
      1917
      1918

6 Being a Russian among Australians
A Russian in almost every unit
Serving with Russians
‘I fight no more for the British’

7 Heading home?

part III LIFE

8 ‘Suspected to be a bolshevick’

9 Coming home
‘A man should do a man’s work’
Between the land and the sea
Making a go of it
Lingering after-effects of the war

10 Becoming Australian
Pressures to assimilate
A sense of belonging
Blending in

11 The Second World War

Epilogue
      A big Gladstone bag

Appendix: figures and tables

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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