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Cold war Canada : the making of a national insecurity state, 1945-1957 /

Canadians might expect that a history of Canada's participation in the Cold War would be a self-congratulatory exercise in documenting the liberality and moderation of Canada set against the rapacious purges of the McCarthy era in the United States. Though Reg Whitaker and Gary Marcuse agree th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Whitaker, Reginald, 1943-
Other Authors: Marcuse, Gary
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1994.
Series:CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Introduction. 1. Never Again! From World War to Cold War
  • pt. 2. The Gouzenko Affair. 2. Gouzenko Concealed: Spies and Atomic Politics. 3. Gouzenko Revealed: Spy Chases and Witch-hunts. 4. Gouzenko
  • the Aftermath: Scientists under Surveillance
  • pt. 3. Canada in a Cold War World. 5. The Russians, the Americans, and Us: Cold War Foreign Policy. 6. Stand on Guard: In Defence of Canada
  • pt. 4. The Cold War in Ottawa. 7. Security Screening Civil Servants. 8. The Dog That Never Barked: Anti-Communist Legislation. 9. The Antagonists: Cops versus Commies. 10. 'Freda to the Professor through Grierson': The Persecution of a Film Maker. 11. 'A Communist Nest': Witch-hunt at the NFB
  • pt. 5. The Cold War in Canadian Society. 12. The Debate That Never Was: Selling the Cold War. 13. The Cold War in the Provinces. 14. Labour's Cold War (I): Communists and Unions, 1945-1949. 15. Labour's Cold War (II): Purging the Trades and Labour Congress, 1949-1955.