Undesirable: Captain Zuzenko and the Workers of Australia and the World
Dr Kevin Windle, from the School of Language Studies has released a new book titled Undesirable: Captain Zuzenko and the Workers of Australia and the World.
Alexander Zuzenko, a sailor and veteran of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, arrived in Australia in 1911 and embarked upon a career of industrial and political agitation and radical journalism. Soon branded ‘an unscrupulous advocate of Bolshevism’ by the security services, he went on to head the Union of Russian Workers in Brisbane and led the red flag demonstration in 1919, which precipitated his deportation to Soviet Russia.
Undesirablehas been nominated for the Prime Minister's literary awards.
Dr Windle is the convenor of Russian and Translation Studies and has research interests in modern Russian and Polish literature, Slavonic lexicography and Translation Studies.