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The education of a Canadian : my life as a scholar and activist by Harold Gordon Skilling is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.

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

Author

Harold Gordon Skilling

Publisher

Published For Carleton University By Mcgill-queen's University Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780886293574

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography