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Philosophy Political

The Education of a Canadian

My Life as a Scholar and Activist

by (author) Gordon Skilling

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2000
Category
Political, Civilization
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780886293574
    Publish Date
    Dec 2000
    List Price
    $95.00

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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.

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