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Cold War Canada : The Making of a National Insecurity State, 1945-1957 by Gary Marcuse; Reginald Whitaker is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Cold War Canada : The Making of a National Insecurity State, 1945-1957 about?

Canadians might expect that a history of Canada's participation in the Cold War would be a self-congratulatory exercise in documenting the liberality and moderation of Canada set against the rapacious purges of the McCarthy era in the United States. Though Reg Whitaker and Gary Marcuse agree that there is some evidence for Canadian moderation, they argue that the smug Canadian self-image is exaggerated. Cold War Canada digs past the official moderation and uncovers a systematic state-sponsored repression of communists and the Left directed at civil servants, scientists, trade unionists, and political activists. Unlike the United States, Canada's purges were shrouded in secrecy imposed by the government and avidly supported by the RCMP security service. Whitaker and Marcuse manage to reconstruct several of the significant anti-communist campaigns. Using declassified documents, interviews, and extensive archival sources, the authors reconstruct the Gouzenko spy scandal, trace the growth of security screening of civil servants, and re-examine purges in the National Film Board and the trade unions, attacks on peace activist James G. Endicott, and the trials of Canadian diplomat Herbert

Author

Gary Marcuse; Reginald Whitaker

Publisher

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802059352

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities