The education of a Canadian
| Titel: | The education of a Canadian : my life as a scholar and activist / H. Gordon Skilling |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000 |
| Umfang: | XIII, 450 Seiten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 088629357X |
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.
