The Education of a Canadian: My Life As a Scholar and Activist

By Gordon Skilling

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088629357X
• ISBN13: 9780886293574
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Carleton University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.4"