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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part I: Soviet Defectors in the Public Record -- 1. What Has Been Written About Soviet Defectors? -- 2. What Have Defectors Written About Themselves? -- 3. What Did Soviet Defectors Say? -- Part II: The KGB Wanted List: 1945-1969 -- 4. The KGB Wanted List: A General Characterization -- 5. Personal Data on Defectors -- 6. Defection and Its Aftermath -- 7. Criminal Allegations and Expected Punishment -- 8. Spy and Fake Defectors -- 9. Defections Before and After the Berlin Wall -- 10. Defections Under Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev -- Part III: Defections From 1969 to the Present -- 11. Defection and Legal Emigration -- 12. Trends in Post -1969 Defection -- 13. Defection and Détente -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- List of Abbreviations Used in Appendixes -- 1A Passev List (May 1945-April 1969) -- IB Those Missing From the Passev List (1945- 1969) -- 2A Sample Entry of the KGB Wanted List (Vladislav Krasnov) -- 2B Ethnic Background of Defectors -- 2C Annual Distribution of Defections -- 2D Countries of Defection -- 2E Countries of Residence -- 2F Court Sentences For Defectors -- 2G List of "Anti-Soviet" Organizations Associated With Defectors -- 2H List of "Anti-Soviet" Organizations Sponsored By Foreigners -- 2I Defections Before and After the Berlin Wall -- 2J Defections Under Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev -- 2K Ethnic Distribution of Defectors Under Different Rulers -- 3 Composite List of Defectors (May 1969 to Present) -- 3A Defecting Scholars and Intellectuals (1969 to Present) -- 3B Defecting Musicians and Singers (1969 to Present) -- 3C Defecting Dancers (1969 to Present) -- 3D Defecting Seamen and Fishermen (1969 to Present) -- 3E Defecting Athletes and Sportsmen (1969 To Present)

Introduction -- From Linked to Linking Agency: Transnational Ties of North Korean Defectors Living in Japan -- Adaptation of North Korean Defector Families Who Resettled in South Korea After Having Left the South -- 'I Opened My Eyes': Female North Korean Defectors' Journey from Precarity to Empowerment -- Do They Get Along? Interactions Between North Korean Defectors and South Korean Migrants in London -- Communication of North Korean Defector Families through Transnational Migration -- De-bordering North Korea: Remittances and Global Networks -- Representation and Self-Presentation of North Korean Defectors in South Korea: Image, Discourse, and Voices -- North Korean Nation-Building Outside North Korea -- Conclusion: Looking to the Future.

When intelligence officers defect, they take with them privileged information and often communicate it to the receiving state.

Defections from the People's Republic of China (PRC) were an important part of the narrative of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan during the Cold War, but their stories have previously barely been told, less still examined, in English. During the 1960s, 70s and 80s, the ROC government paid much special attention to these anti-communist heroes (fangong yishi). Their choices to leave behind the turmoil of the PRC were a propaganda coup for the Nationalist one-party state in Taiwan, proving the superiority of the "Free China" that they had created there. Morris looks at the stories behind these headlines, what the defectors understood about the ROC before they arrived, and how they dealt with the reality of their post-defection lives in Taiwan. He also looks at how these dramatic individual histories of migration were understood to prove essential differences between the two regimes, while at the same time showing important continuities between the two Chinese states. A valuable resource for students and scholars of 20th century China and Taiwan, and of the Cold War and its impact in Asia.

Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors. North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each and every person to play a role in the "theater state" even as it pays little more than lip service to the wellbeing of the overwhelming majority. With this deeply anachronistic system eventually failed in the 1990s, it triggered a famine that decimated the countryside and obliterated the lives of many hundreds of thousands of people. However, it also changed life forever for those who survived. A lawless form of marketization came to replace the iron rice bowl of work in state companies, and the Orwellian mind control of the Korean Workers' Party was replaced for many by dreams of trade and profit. A new North Korea Society was born from the horrors of the era one that is more susceptible to outside information than ever before with the advent of k-pop and video-carrying USB sticks. This is the North Korean society that is described in this book. In seven fascinating chapters the authors explore what life is actually like in modern North Korea today for the ordinary "man and woman on the street." They interview experts and tap a broad variety of sources to bring a startling new insider's view of North Korean society from members of Pyongyang's ruling families to defectors from different periods and regions, to diplomats and NGOs with years of experience in the country, to cross-border traders from neighboring China, and textual accounts appearing in English, Korean and Chinese sources. The resulting stories reveal the horror as well as the innovation and humor which abound in this fascinating country

This book is the first analysis of political defections over a long time span. It investigates all the Liberal/Liberal Democrat MPs and former MPs who defected from the party between the elections of December 1910 and May 2010 - around one sixth of all those elected - as well as the smaller number of inward defectors. Each of the 122 defections was an expert judgment on the state of the party at a specific date. The research investigates the timing and reasons for all the defections and reveals long-term trends and underlying causes and apportions responsibility between leaders for them. The author finds some significant differences which distinguished defectors from loyalists and draws wider conclusions about the underlying factors which lead MPs to defect.This book will be of interest to students and lecturers of British politics and anyone interested in the relationship between British political parties in the last century

Kim Shin-jo -- Ahn Chan-il -- Chon Chol-Woo -- Kang Chol-hwan -- Im Young-sun -- Kim Tae-bom -- Kang Myung-do -- Cho Myung-chul -- Ahn Myeong-cheol -- Jeong Seong-san -- Rhee Min-bok -- Han Yong-su -- Jeong Nam -- Shim Ju-il -- Kim Seong-min -- Park Sang-hak -- Hong Sun-kyung -- Joo Myung-shin -- Park Kwang-il -- Song Byeok -- Kim Tae-san -- Joo Seung-hyun -- Kim Heung-kwang -- Jeon Ju-myeong -- Park Seong-jin -- Park myung-ho -- Ji Seong-ho -- Lee Ung-gil -- Jang Se-yul -- Choi Hyeon-jun -- Kim In-chul -- Im Kang-jin -- Thae Yong-ho -- Exclusive interview with author Lim Il.