The education of a Canadian :: my life as a scholar and activist /

Gordon Skilling writes candidly of each way station in this personal odyssey: the idealism of his student years at the University of Toronto and Oxford; his presence in Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Nazi, and later Soviet, invasions; his opposition to the Marshall Plan, NATO, and U.S. interventio...

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1. Verfasser: Skilling, H. Gordon (Harold Gordon), 1912-2001 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Montreal ; Ithaca : Published for Carleton University by McGill-Queen's University Press, [2000]
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Zusammenfassung:Gordon Skilling writes candidly of each way station in this personal odyssey: the idealism of his student years at the University of Toronto and Oxford; his presence in Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Nazi, and later Soviet, invasions; his opposition to the Marshall Plan, NATO, and U.S. intervention in Korea; the effect of McCarthyism on his academic life; his involvement with the Czech and Slovak dissident movements and finally the Velvet Revolution. The Education of a Canadian also captures conversations with writers, journalists, scholars, and myriad friends throughout Russia and Eastern Europe (including Havel, Djilas, and Sakharov), making this history a distinctly human yet forceful document of profound humanity and international scope.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 450 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780773574182
0773574182
1282864297
9781282864290
9786612864292
661286429X

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