TY - BOOK ID - 77885739 TI - The education of a Canadian PY - 2000 SN - 1282864297 9786612864292 0773574182 9780773574182 088629357X 9780886293574 9781282864290 661286429X PB - Montreal Ithaca DB - UniCat KW - Communism KW - Scholars KW - Political activists KW - College teachers KW - Communisme KW - Savants KW - Activistes KW - Professeurs (Enseignement supérieur) KW - Activists, Political KW - Persons KW - Political participation KW - Learning and scholarship KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Biographies. KW - Skilling, H. Gordon KW - Skilling, Harold Gordon, KW - Skilling, Harold Gordon KW - Skilling, Gordon, KW - Czechoslovakia KW - Tchécoslovaquie KW - Politics and government KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Professeurs (Enseignement superieur) KW - Tchecoslovaquie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77885739 AB - 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. ER -