H Gordon Skilling
Biographic Data
| ID | 731084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Gordon Skilling |
| GIVEN NAMES | H Gordon |
| FAMILY NAME | Skilling |
| SIGNATURE | SKILLING H G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 73 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1946 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Civic Freedom in Central Europe: Voices from Czechoslovakia
Part 1 The central and East European context. Part 2 Thoughts from Czechoslovakia: Vaclav Benda - parallel polis (1978) responses - anonymous, Vaclav Benda, Jiri Dientsbier, Vaclav Havel, Ladislav Hejdanek, Ivan Jirous, Eva Kanturkova, Iva Kotrla, Vaclav Maly, Radim Palous, Petr Pithart, Zdenek Rotrekl, Jaroslav Sabata, Jirina Siklova, Libuse Silhanova, Milan Simecka, Jan Simsa, Jozef Zverina. Part 3 Parallel polis twelve years later: Martin Palo…
Czech Renascence of the Nineteenth Century
The Education of a Canadian: My Life as a Scholar and Activist
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 Revol…
Czechs and Slovaks 1998: A Year of Anniversaries
For Czechs, 1998 is a year of anniversaries. In April Charles University celebrates the 650th year of its founding by Charles IV in 1348 when the Kingdom of Bohemia was at its peak. Three hundred years later, in 1648, the end of the Thirty Years War marked the victory of the counter-reformation and sealed the fate of Bohemian independence. Two centuries after that, in 1848, the year of the Spring of Nations throughout Europe, the revolt in Prague…
T. G. Masaryk: Against the Current, 1882-1914
This study of T.G. Masaryk deals with his pre-1914 career as a professor and persistent dissenter. For three decades he was a constant and unrelenting critic of conventional wisdom, established instit
Czechoslovakia, 1918-88: Seventy Years from Independence
PART 1 TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF CZECHOSLOVAK LEADERSHIP - Lions or Foxes: Heroes or Lackeys H.G.Skilling - PART 2 INDEPENDENCE ACHIEVED - T.G.Masaryk: The Problem of a Small G.J.Kovtun - On the Emergence of Czechoslovakia J.Opat - PART 3 CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN EUROPE - Benes between East and West W.Ullmann - PART 4 THE NATIONALITIES - Czechs and Slovaks E.Bos k - Castles on the Landscape: Czechs and Germans R.M.Smelser - Magyars and Carpatho-Rusyns P.R.…
Civic Freedom in Central Europe: Voices from Czechoslovakia
Recording the views of dissidents on the nature of their own activities, this book contains over 20 short essays by a number of leading people from Charter 77. Contributors include Vaclav Havel, Eva K
Academic Iconoclast T.G. Masaryk; Professor and Pedagogue
L'A. presente une etude sur T. G. Masaryk, universitaire, parlementaire tcheque : ses options pedagogiques et politiques (son influence sur les mouvements etudiants, sa politique de reforme de l'enseignement tcheque) entre 1880 et 1912 sous l'Empire Austro-Hongrois
Samizdat and an Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe
This study of the "independent life of society" (dissent) in Central and Eastern Europe examines the forms of independent activity at work today. Included are autonomous family life, religion and nati
Samizdat and an Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe
The Crisis in Eastern Europe Communism: National and International
Independent Historiography in Czechoslovakia
This article was written in honour of Dr. Vilem Precan, Czech historian now living in exile, who celebrated his fiftieth birthday on 9 January 1983. Dr. Precan, in addition to his own scholarly work, has done more than almost anyone else to encourage and assist his colleagues at home, historians and non-historians alike, and to make their work known abroad. See the following works by Precan: Kniha Charty (Cologne, 1977); Die Sieben Jahre von Prag…
Interest Groups and Communist Politics Revisited
Empirical research has demonstrated the utility of an interest group approach for the study of Soviet politics, as well as for interpreting the politics of tsarist Russia and Eastern European communist systems and the dissident movements. The flowering of group activity in Poland and Czechoslovakia at certain times and the activity of dissent movements show, however, the rudimentary character of “normal” interest groups in the Soviet Union and el…
Charter 77 and Human Rights in Czechoslovakia
Charter 77 and the Musical Underground
AbstractLes procès de jeunes musiciens de rock faisant partie du groupe “les Hommes Plastiques de I’Univers” ainsi que leur défense par ďéminents intellectuels ont joué un rôle critique en tant que catalyseur dans l’élaboration de la Charte 77 et dans la poussée du mouvement des Droits de l’Homme en Tchécoslovaquie.L’injustice flagrante des procès, les condamnations sévères et le puritanisme borné du régime unit communistes et non-communistes dan…
From soviet studies to comparative politics: The unfinished revolution’: A comment
‘From soviet studies to comparative politics: The unfinished revolution’: A comment." Soviet Studies, 31(3), pp. 441–442
Twentieth Century Czechoslovakia: The Meanings of Its History . Josef Korbel Czechoslovakia . William V. Wallace
The Prague Spring Reassessed
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From Dubček to Charter 77: A Study of 'Normalisation' in Czechoslovakia 1968-1978
Die Sieben Jahre von Prag, 1969-1976: Briefe und Dokumente aus der Zeit der 'Normalisierung
Socialism and Human Rights: Charter 77 and the Prague Spring
La Charte 77, déclaration des droits humains, rédigée à Prague en janvier 1977, est devenue une question centrale de la politique intérieure de la Tchécoslovaquie et a fixé l’attention du monde entier sur elle. En démontrant l’influence continue de l’esprit du Printemps de 1968, la Charte a porté un défi à la raison d’être même du régime Husâk. Elle a acquis une signification internationale par son appel aux conventions des droits humains et au c…
Sixty-Eight in Historical Perspective
The Spring That Never Ends: A Review Article
Czechoslovakia's Interrupted Revolution
Czechoslovakia's Interrupted Revolution
Interest Groups and Communist Politics
The idea that interest groups may play a significant role in Communist politics has, until recently, not been seriously entertained either by Western political scientists or by Soviet legal specialists. The concept of “totalitarianism” that has dominated the analysis of communism in the West has seemed to preclude the possibility that interest groups could challenge or affect the single ruling party as the fount of all power. The uniqueness of a …
Interest Groups and Communist Politics Revisited
Empirical research has demonstrated the utility of an interest group approach for the study of Soviet politics, as well as for interpreting the politics of tsarist Russia and Eastern European communist systems and the dissident movements. The flowering of group activity in Poland and Czechoslovakia at certain times and the activity of dissent movements show, however, the rudimentary character of “normal” interest groups in the Soviet Union and el…
Charter 77 and Human Rights in Czechoslovakia
Soviet and Communist Politics: A Comparative Approach
Czechoslovakia's Interrupted Revolution
Czechoslovakia's Interrupted Revolution
Background to the Study of Opposition in Communist Eastern Europe
TO DISCUSS ‘OPPOSITION’ IN A ONE-PARTY SYSTEM, AND IN PARTICULAR in a communist one, might seem on first thought to involve a contradiction in terms. Communist governments have normally been regarded in the West as systems without opposition except in the form of illegal resistance by sections of the population to the regimes themselves. Yet Leonard Schapiro, in his foreword to the first issue of the journal, Government and Opposition , expressed…
Samizdat and an Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe
The Governments of Communist East Europe
The Political Control of Czechoslovakia
Sixty-Eight in Historical Perspective
Totalitarianism' and Change in Communist Systems
The Czechoslovak Constitution of 1960 and the Transition to Communism
Canadian Representation Abroad. From Agency to Embassy
The Crisis in Eastern Europe Communism: National and International
Independent Historiography in Czechoslovakia
This article was written in honour of Dr. Vilem Precan, Czech historian now living in exile, who celebrated his fiftieth birthday on 9 January 1983. Dr. Precan, in addition to his own scholarly work, has done more than almost anyone else to encourage and assist his colleagues at home, historians and non-historians alike, and to make their work known abroad. See the following works by Precan: Kniha Charty (Cologne, 1977); Die Sieben Jahre von Prag…
Charter 77 and the Musical Underground
AbstractLes procès de jeunes musiciens de rock faisant partie du groupe “les Hommes Plastiques de I’Univers” ainsi que leur défense par ďéminents intellectuels ont joué un rôle critique en tant que catalyseur dans l’élaboration de la Charte 77 et dans la poussée du mouvement des Droits de l’Homme en Tchécoslovaquie.L’injustice flagrante des procès, les condamnations sévères et le puritanisme borné du régime unit communistes et non-communistes dan…
The Party, Opposition and Interest Groups: Fifty Years of Continuity and Change
A striking paradox of communist politics is the ceaseless flux of change beneath an appearance of changeless continuity in the forms and structures and in the communist theory of political power. In spite of a succession of constitutions and even more frequent amendments of the party's own statute, the general structure of Soviet political institutions and of political processes, as it exists in 1967, is not in its essential features unlike the o…
World Communism. The Disintegration of a Secular Faith
Communism in Rumania 1944-1962
Communism in Eastern Europe: Personal Impressions, 1961–1962
Socialist camp, a Polish frontier guard watched me through binoculars from a rough wooden tower, like a hunting box, on the shore. Somewhat to my surprise, I realized that the frontiers between the bloc members impeded not only travel, but also the passage of ideas and information, so that knowledge of what was happening in another Communist country was limited, even among intellectuals, to random and scattered information, gleaned from those for…
People's democracy and the socialist revolution: A case study in communist scholarship
Permanent or Uninterrupted Revolution: Lenin, Trotsky, and their Successors on the Transition to Socialism
Lenin once urged his followers to focus attention on searching out of the forms of transition or approach to the proletarian revolution/'1 Nothing has proved more difficult for his successors than to arrive at a consensus on this question. Convinced of the historic inevitability of the coming of socialism, Marxists have ever been much in doubt as to the best ways to bring it about. Marxism itself provided, not a single key, but many keys to the s…
The Prague Overturn in 1948
The Czechoslovak Constitutional System: The Soviet Impact
Canadian Representation Abroad. From Agency to Embassy
Canadian Representation Abroad: From Agency to Embassy
II. The Rise of a Canadian Diplomatic Service
Canada's Foreign Trade Service
the Dominion the search for foreign markets has been a significant function of government in Canada. Appropriate representation abroad for the purpose of trade promotion was initiated soon after Confederation. This first phase of Canada's commercial representation abroad was, however, haphazard and unsystematic and consisted mainly of the use of existing agencies, British and Canadian, designed for other purposes than the encouragement of the Can…
Canadian Representation Abroad: From Agency to Embassy
Revolutions in Prague
Czechs and Slovaks seem fated historically to experience the great European and world conflicts in most acute form. For instance Munich, in 1938culmination of appeasement and prologue to war meant for the Czechs, with their vivid sense of history, a catastrophe comparable only to Bila Hora (the White Mountain), the battle of 1620 which subjected them to Habsburg rule for three centuries. What to the West is fast becoming an episode of no continui…
Czechoslovakia: The Soviet Impact
The Establishment of Canadian Diplomatic Status at Washington
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The Czechoslovak Constitutional System: The Soviet Impact
Tito
The Threat of Soviet Imperialism
The Soviet impact on the Czechoslovak legal revolution
Czechoslovakia: Government in Communist Hands
The Political Control of Czechoslovakia
The Prague Overturn in 1948
Stalin and the Soviet Communist Party: A Study in the Technology of Power. Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov The Soviet Union Between the 19th and 20th Party Congresses, 1952-1956. G. D. Embree
Communism: National or International
Soviet and Communist Politics: A Comparative Approach
People's democracy and the socialist revolution: A case study in communist scholarship: Part II
People's democracy and the socialist revolution: A case study in communist scholarship
Rise and Development of a Totalitarian State
Scholarship and the Soviet Riddle
The baffling task of discerning the meaning of Russian history has long intrigued scholars, both native and foreign. For Soviet scholars Marxism provides a ready-made means of interpreting not only their own, but all, societies. For western scholars, the addition of Marxism to the centuries-old Russian traditions has simply compounded the intrinsic difficulty of coming to an understanding of this unfamiliar culture. Yet the comprehension of the S…
Permanent or Uninterrupted Revolution: Lenin, Trotsky, and their Successors on the Transition to Socialism
Lenin once urged his followers to focus attention on searching out of the forms of transition or approach to the proletarian revolution/'1 Nothing has proved more difficult for his successors than to arrive at a consensus on this question. Convinced of the historic inevitability of the coming of socialism, Marxists have ever been much in doubt as to the best ways to bring it about. Marxism itself provided, not a single key, but many keys to the s…
Gottwald and the Bolshevization of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1929-1939)
During the twenty years between the wars, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was forged as the instrument of eventual Communist rule in that country. In the first decade of its history the CPC was racked with inner crises, often provoked by Comintern intervention in party affairs, and always settled in accordance with the decisions of the Cominitern organs of authority., In 1929 the fate of the CPC was entrusted to Klement Gottwald. Ten years …
Two Orthodox Satellites
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