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The education of a Canadian : my life as a scholar and activist

Title
The education of a Canadian : my life as a scholar and activist / H. Gordon Skilling.
Author
Skilling, H. Gordon (Harold Gordon), 1912-2001.
Publication
Montreal ; Ithaca : Published for Carleton University by McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2000.

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Description
xiii, 450 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
Subject
  • Skilling, H. Gordon 1912-2001
  • Skilling, H. Gordon 1912-2001
  • Skilling, Harold Gordon
  • 1900-1999
  • Communism > History > 20th century
  • Scholars > Canada > Biography
  • Political activists > Canada > Biography
  • College teachers > Canada > Biography
  • Scholars > Canada > Bibliography
  • College teachers
  • Communism
  • Political activists
  • Politics and government
  • Scholars
  • Autobiografie
  • Osteuropaforschung
  • Politische Wissenschaft
  • Kommunismus
  • Communisme
  • Czechoslovakia > Politics and government > 1945-1992
  • Canada
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Tschechoslowakei
Genre/Form
  • autobiographies (literary works)
  • Bibliographies
  • Autobiographies
  • Biographies
  • History
  • Autobiographies.
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 088629357X
  • 9780886293574
LCCN
2001279286
OCLC
  • ocm43283062
  • 43283062
  • SCSB-1206418
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library