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020			_a9780776624631 (pbk) _q(softcover)
020			_z9780776624648 (pdf)
020			_z9780776624655 (epub)
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040			_aYDXCP _beng _cJCRC _dBTCTA
100	1		_aBirney, Earle _d1904-1995.
245	1	0	_aConversations with Trotsky : _bEarle Birney and the Radical 1930s / _cedited and with an introduction by Bruce Nesbitt.
260			_aOttawa : _bUniversity of Ottawa Press, _c2017.
300			_axvii, 418 p. : _bcov. ill. ; _c21 cm.
440			_aCanadian Literature
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 379-408) and index.
505			_a"This collection presents all of Earle Birney's known published and unpublished works on Trotsky and Trotskyism for the very first time: their correspondence, a selection of Birney's letters, and his literary writings. From 1933 to 1940, Leon Trotsky was the focus of Birney's work and much of his life, corresponding with the great Russian revolutionary, organizing Trotskyist cells, and recruiting on behalf of Trotskyism. This volume traces the origins of Trotsky's mistrust of "the British" to his experiences in Canada and includes the largest body of Trotskyist criticism in Canadian literary history. Of equal importance, "Conversations with Trotsky" shows the need for a radical re-reading of Birney's poetry in light of his Trotskyism." (Book Cover)
505			_aCONTENTS:
505			_aPreface
505			_aAcknowledgements
505			_aIntroduction
505			_aI AN "OPTIMISTIC SORT OF REVOLUTIONARY," 1933-1935
505			_a1. Report to the Toronto Branch of the International Left Opposition
505			_a2. Letter to an American Medical Student
505			_a3. Mine Strike, Martial Law and a Student Delegation
505			_a4. To the Section Bureau, CPUSA, Salt Lake City, Utah
505			_a5. To the Salt Lake Section Committee, CPUSA
505			_a6. A Letter Refused by the Salt Lake City Press
505			_a7. In Defence of Party Democracy
505			_a8. The Struggle Against British Imperialism
505			_aII CONVERSATIONS WITH TROTSKY, 1935
505			_a9. Birney to Trotsky, 5 November 1935
505			_a10. Interviewing Leon Trotsky, 19-23 November 1935
505			_a11. Conversations with Trotsky
505			_a12. Further Conversations with Trotsky
505			_a13. Trotsky on the Canadian Farmer
505			_a14. Birney to Trotsky, 8 December 1935
505			_a15. Birney to Trotsky, 16 December 1935
505			_aIII POLITICAL WRITINGS, 1935-1939
505			_a16. Incident in Berlin
505			_a17. Trotsky to Birney, 19 January 1936
505			_a18. Birney to Trotsky, 14 February 1936
505			_a19. Birney to Trotsky, 27 February 1936
505			_a20. Birney to Trotsky, 29 January 1937
505			_a21. Another Month - January
505			_a22. Another Month - February
505			_a23. Another Month - March
505			_a24. Birney to Joe Hansen, 15 November 1937
505			_a25. Trotsky to Birney, 27 November 1937
505			_a26. Birney to Trotsky, 2 January 1938
505			_a27. Canadian Capitalism and the Strategy of the Revolutionary Movement
505			_a28. The Land of the Maple Leaf Is the Land of Monopoly
505			_a29. Is French Canada Going Fascist ?
505			_a30. Trotsky to Birney, 5 June 1939
505			_a31. Birney to Trotsky, 6 June 1939
505			_a32. War Is Here - What Now?
505			_aIV LITERATURE AND REVOLUTION, 1934-1940
505			_a33. Escape by Emetic
505			_a34. On "Proletarian Literature"
505			_a35. The Brave New Words of Aldous Huxley
505			_a36. Cecil Day Lewis, The Loving Communist
505			_a37. Proletarian Literature: Theory and Practice
505			_a38. What Do Canadians Tell Stories About?
505			_a39. R.M. Fox: Worker-Fighter
505			_a40. Soviet Fiction and American Fustian
505			_a41. The Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway
505			_a42. Polygamous Communists from Toronto to Salt Lake
505			_a43. Yorkshire Proletarians
505			_a44. The Rhymes of the Irish Revolution
505			_a45. The Lost Irish Lenin?
505			_a46. Onward with Edward Upward
505			_a47. The Two William Faulkners
505			_a48. John Bull's Other Hell
505			_a49. The English Worker
505			_a50. New Writing in Britain and Elsewhere
505			_a51. The Fiction of James T. Farrell
505			_a52. The New Byronism: Poets and the Spanish Civil War
505			_a53. Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath
505			_a54. The Left Theatre in English
505			_a55. Whitewashing the Stalinist Persecutors of Artists
505			_a56. The Mad Sanity of Henry Miller
505			_a57. To Arms with Canadian Poetry
505			_a58. Fashion and Change on Broadway, or Propaganda Is What You Disagree With
505			_a59. New Writing and Literary Stalinism
505			_a60. Erika Mann and the Middle-Class Martyrs of Fascism
505			_a61. Literary Stalinism: Lehmann vs. Birney
505			_a62. Changing Minds in Wartime
505			_aV ENVOI, 1940
505			_a63. In Memory: Lev Davidovich Bronstein
505			_aAcronyms and abbreviations
505			_aTextual sources
505			_aWorks cited
600	1	0	_aBirney, Earle, _d1904-1995.
600	1	0	_aTrotsky, Leon, _d1879-1940.
650		0	_aAuthors, Canadian _y20th century _vCorrespondence.
650		0	_aCommunists _zCanada _vCorrespondence.
650		0	_aCommunism.
650		0	_aTrotskyism.
700	1		_aNesbitt, Bruce _d1941-
856			_uhttps://press.uottawa.ca/en/9780776624631/conversations-with-trotsky/ _zPublisher's Website.
856			_uhttps://ocul-uo.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_UO/5lqjs2/alma991045106572905161 _zCheck the UO Library catalog.
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