Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Foreword x
5. Preface xi
6. Death of a Country 1
7. Getting my Bearings
8. Growing up on College Street 16
9. Becoming a Socialist: Toronto 29
10. Moving to the Left: Oxford 42
11. Embarking on Czech Studies: London and Prague 58
12. War and Cold War
13. The War Years: The Midwest and Montreal 78
14. The “Wisconsin Idea” and the United Nations 98
15. The Cold War Begins: Stalinism in Prague 110
16. The Cold War Deepens: Mccarthyism in the U.S. 131
17. Changing Faces of Communism
18. Russian and East European Studies: Toronto 152
19. Probing the Enigma of Communism* 166
20. Journeys East from Vienna 180
21. A Summer of Ferment: Prague and Bratislava 225
22. The Interrupted Revolution 248
23. Neo-Stalinism: Socialism with Goose-Flesh 269
24. Sowing the Seeds of Freedom
25. Charter 77 286
26. In Defence of Human Rights 319
27. An Emerging Civil Society: Vaclav Havel 340
28. The Velvet Revolution: Independence and Partition 370
29. Index 407