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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Skilling, H. Gordon (Harold Gordon), 1912-2001 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Ithaca : Published for Carleton University by McGill-Queen's University Press, [2000]
Temas:
Skilling, H. Gordon > (Harold Gordon), > 1912-2001.
Skilling, H. Gordon > (Harold Gordon), > 1912-2001
Skilling, Harold Gordon.
1900-1999
Communism > History > 20th century.
Scholars > Canada > Biography.
Political activists > Canada > Biography.
College teachers > Canada > Biography.
Communisme > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Savants > Canada > Biographies.
Activistes > Canada > Biographies.
Professeurs (Enseignement supérieur) > Canada > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
College teachers
Communism
Political activists
Politics and government
Scholars
Osteuropaforschung
Politische Wissenschaft
Kommunismus
Communisme.
Czechoslovakia > Politics and government > 1945-1992.
Tchécoslovaquie > Politique et gouvernement > 1945-1992.
Canada
Czechoslovakia
Tschechoslowakei
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Vaclav Havel
  • 1. Death of a country
  • 2. Growing up on College Street
  • 3. Becoming a socialist : Toronto
  • 4. Moving to the left : Oxford
  • 5. Embarking on Czech studies : London and Prague
  • 6. The war years : the Midwest and Montreal
  • 7. The "Wisconsin idea" and the United Nations
  • 8. The Cold War begins : Stalinism in Prague
  • 9. The Cold War deepens : McCarthyism in the U.S.
  • 10. Russian and East European studies : Toronto
  • 11. Probing the enigma of communism
  • 12. Journeys east from Vienna
  • 13. A summer of ferment : Prague and Bratislava
  • 14. The interrupted revolution
  • 15. Neo-Stalinism : socialism with goose-flesh
  • 16. Charter 77
  • 17. In defence of human rights
  • 18. An emerging civil society : Vaclav Havel
  • 19. The Velvet Revolution : independence and partition.

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