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.
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- 21
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Illustrations 10
- Foreword 11
- Preface 12
- 1 Death of a Country 16
- I: GETTING MY BEARINGS 30
- 2 Growing Up on College Street 31
- 3 Becoming a Socialist: Toronto 44
- 4 Moving to the Left: Oxford 57
- 5 Embarking on Czech Studies: London and Prague 73
- II: WAR AND COLD WAR 92
- 6 The War Years: The Midwest and Montreal 93
- 7 The "Wisconsin Idea" and the United Nations 113
- 8 The Cold War Begins: Stalinism in Prague 125
- 9 The Cold War Deepens: McCarthyism in the U.S. 146
- III: CHANGING FACES OF COMMUNISM 166
- 10 Russian and East European Studies: Toronto 167
- 11 Probing the Enigma of Communism 181
- 12 Journeys East from Vienna 195
- 13 A Summer of Ferment: Prague and Bratislava 240
- 14 The Interrupted Revolution 263
- 15 Neo-Stalinism: Socialism with Goose-Flesh 284
- IV: SOWING THE SEEDS OF FREEDOM 300
- 16 Charter 77 301
- 17 In Defence of Human Rights 334
- 18 An Emerging Civil Society: Václav Havel 355
- 19 The Velvet Revolution: Independence and Partition 385
- Index 422
- A 422
- B 423
- C 425
- D 431
- E 432
- F 434
- G 435
- H 437
- I 439
- J 441
- K 441
- L 442
- M 444
- N 446
- O 448
- P 448
- Q 452
- R 452
- S 454
- T 460
- U 461
- V 463
- W 463
- Y 465
- Z 465
