Conversations with Trotsky : Earle Birney and the Radical 1930s /
"Before he became one of Canada's most influential and popular twentieth-century poets, Earle Birney lived a double life. To his students and colleagues, he was an engaging university lecturer and scholar. But for seven years from 1933 to 1940, the great Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky...
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Ottawa :
University of Ottawa Press,
2017.
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- Machine generated contents note: I. "OPTIMISTIC SORT OF REVOLUTIONARY," 1933
- 1935
- 1. Report to the Toronto Branch of the International Left Opposition
- 2. Letter to an American Medical Student
- 3. Mine Strike, Martial Law and a Student Delegation
- 4. To the Section Bureau, CPUSA, Salt Lake City, Utah
- 5. To the Salt Lake Section Committee, CPUSA
- 6. Letter Refused by the Salt Lake City Press
- 7. In Defence of Party Democracy
- 8. Struggle Against British Imperialism
- II. CONVERSATIONS WITH TROTSKY, 1935
- 9. Birney to Trotsky, 5 November 1935
- 10. Interviewing Leon Trotsky, 19
- 23 November 1935
- 11. Conversations with Trotsky
- 12. Further Conversations with Trotsky
- 13. Trotsky on the Canadian Farmer
- 14. Birney to Trotsky, 8 December 1935
- 15. Birney to Trotsky, 16 December 1935
- III. POLITICAL WRITINGS, 1935
- 1939
- 16. Incident in Berlin
- 17. Trotsky to Birney, 19 January 1936
- 18. Birney to Trotsky, 14 February 1936
- 19. Birney to Trotsky, 27 February 1936
- 20. Birney to Trotsky, 29 January 1937
- 21. Another Month
- January
- 22. Another Month
- February
- 23. Another Month
- March
- 24. Birney to Joe Hansen, 15 November 1937
- 25. Trotsky to Birney, 27 November 1937
- 26. Birney to Trotsky, 2 January 1938
- 27. Canadian Capitalism and the Strategy of the Revolutionary Movement
- 28. Land of the Maple Leaf Is the Land of Monopoly
- 29. Is French Canada Going Fascist?
- 30. Trotsky to Birney, 5 June 1939
- 31. Birney to Trotsky, 6 June 1939
- 32. War Is Here
- What Now?
- IV. LITERATURE AND REVOLUTION, 1934
- 1940
- 33. Escape by Emetic
- 34. On "Proletarian Literature"
- 35. Brave New Words of Aldous Huxley
- 36. Cecil Day Lewis, The Loving Communist
- 37. Proletarian Literature: Theory and Practice
- 38. What Do Canadians Tell Stories About?
- 39. R.M. Fox: Worker
- Fighter
- 40. Soviet Fiction and American Fustian
- 41. Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway
- 42. Polygamous Communists from Toronto to Salt Lake
- 43. Yorkshire Proletarians
- 44. Rhymes of the Irish Revolution
- 45. Lost Irish Lenin?
- 46. Onward with Edward Upward
- 47. Two William Faulkners
- 48. John Bull's Other Hell
- 49. English Worker
- 50. New Writing in Britain and Elsewhere
- 51. Fiction of James T. Farrell
- 52. New Byronism: Poets and the Spanish Civil War
- 53. Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath
- 54. Left Theatre in English
- 55. Whitewashing the Stalinist Persecutors of Artists
- 56. Mad Sanity of Henry Miller
- 57. To Arms with Canadian Poetry
- 58. Fashion and Change on Broadway, or Propaganda Is What You Disagree With
- 59. New Writing and Literary Stalinism
- 60. Erika Mann and the Middle-Class Martyrs of Fascism
- 61. Literary Stalinism: Lehmann vs. Birney
- 62. Changing Minds in Wartime
- V. ENVOI, 1940
- 63. In Memory: Lev Davidovich Bronstein.