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The education of a Canadian : my life as a scholar and activist / H. Gordon Skilling.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal ; Ithaca : Published for Carleton University by McGill-Queen's University Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 450 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773574182
  • 0773574182
  • 1282864297
  • 9781282864290
  • 9786612864292
  • 661286429X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Education of a Canadian.DDC classification:
  • 320/.092 21
LOC classification:
  • JC253 S53 A3 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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