Undesirable: Captain Zuzenko and the Workers of Australia and the World

Russians in Australia

Undesirable: Captain Zuzenko and the Workers of Australia and the World
by Kevin Windle
Australian Scholarly, 2012, 274 pages, $39.95

Kevin Windle has reconstructed the hitherto unknown story of Captain Zuzenko, a Comintern agent who helped found the Communist Party of Australia. Alexander Zuzenko, born in Riga in 1884, became a mariner by profession, and a radical anarchist organiser by temperament. As journalism was one of his many careers, he left a paper trail of his propaganda activities, which has helped Windle trace the most important events in his life….

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2013/06/the-soviets-secret-agent-in-australia/