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Název:		The education of a Canadian :my life as a scholar and activist
Autor:		Skilling H. Gordon
Rok vydání:		c2000
Identifikátory:		9780886293574 (OCoLC)43283062

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Anotace:	This captivating memoir by one of Canada's pre-eminent and honored scholars records a life devoted to understanding both the history and destiny of world communism. It also reveals a life lived at the heart of the Soviet experiment, especially as it was tried and tested in Czechoslovakia. The work is a 'living history' of some of the most dramatic periods of change in our time, seen first through the eyes of an early and ardent 'fellow traveler', then through the sharper lens of an academic striving to make sense of Soviet failures and gross injustices, and finally from the perspective of an experienced scholar, activist, and social critic.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. H. Gordon Skilling is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Toronto.
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