From Russia with Love: Dissidents, Defectors and the Politics of Asylum in Cold War India

McGarr, Paul M.

Abstract

During the Cold War defectors were invariably paraded as propaganda trophies. The wider political significance of defections has hitherto been interrogated almost exclusively in an East–West binary. Utilising recently declassified documents from three continents, attention is focused on the elided role played by the developing world in the Cold War asylum story and, specifically, that of non-aligned India. By reinterpreting international responses to three Soviet defections that occurred in India in the 1960s, new light is shed upon political asylum as a source of North–South tension and discord.

Citation

McGarr, P. M. (2020). From Russia with Love: Dissidents, Defectors and the Politics of Asylum in Cold War India. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 48(4), 736-779. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2020.1741835

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 10, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Apr 2, 2020
• Publication Date: Apr 2, 2020
• Deposit Date: Apr 8, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 3, 2021
• Journal: Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
• Print ISSN: 0308-6534
• Electronic ISSN: 1743-9329
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 736-779
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2020.1741835
• Keywords: Asylum ; India ; Cold War ; Soviet Union ; Political Science and International Relations ; Development ; History
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4262276
• Publisher URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2020.1741835
• Additional Information: Peer Review Statement: The publishing and review policy for this title is described in its Aims & Scope.; Aim & Scope: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=fich20; Published: 2020-04-02