A01=Gordon Skilling
Author_Gordon Skilling
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Product details
- ISBN 9780886293574
- Weight: 832g
- Publication Date: 06 Dec 2000
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
