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100 1 $aWhitaker, Reginald,$d1943-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88019846
245 10 $aCold war Canada :$bthe making of a national insecurity state, 1945-1957 /$cReg Whitaker and Gary Marcuse.
260 $aToronto ;$aBuffalo :$bUniversity of Toronto Press,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $axxi, 511 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, portraits ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [427]-490) and index.
505 00 $gPt. 1.$tIntroduction.$g1.$tNever Again! From World War to Cold War --$gPt. 2.$tThe Gouzenko Affair.$g2.$tGouzenko Concealed: Spies and Atomic Politics.$g3.$tGouzenko Revealed: Spy Chases and Witch-hunts.$g4.$tGouzenko - the Aftermath: Scientists under Surveillance --$gPt. 3.$tCanada in a Cold War World.$g5.$tThe Russians, the Americans, and Us: Cold War Foreign Policy.$g6.$tStand on Guard: In Defence of Canada --$gPt. 4.$tThe Cold War in Ottawa.$g7.$tSecurity Screening Civil Servants.$g8.$tThe Dog That Never Barked: Anti-Communist Legislation.$g9.$tThe Antagonists: Cops versus Commies.$g10.$t'Freda to the Professor through Grierson': The Persecution of a Film Maker.$g11.$t'A Communist Nest': Witch-hunt at the NFB --$gPt. 5.$tThe Cold War in Canadian Society.$g12.$tThe Debate That Never Was: Selling the Cold War.$g13.$tThe Cold War in the Provinces.$g14.$tLabour's Cold War (I): Communists and Unions, 1945-1949.$g15.$tLabour's Cold War (II): Purging the Trades and Labour Congress, 1949-1955.
505 80 $g16.$tBan the Bomb! The War on the Peace Movement --$gPt. 6.$tThe End of the First Cold War Era.$g17.$tThe Korean War: Second Thoughts about American Leadership.$g18.$t'The Black Madness of the Witch Hunt': The Herbert Norman Affair.
520 $aCanadians might expect that a history of Canada's participation in the Cold War would be a self-congratulatory exercise in documenting the liberality and moderation of Canada set against the rapacious purges of the McCarthy era in the United States. Though Reg Whitaker and Gary Marcuse agree that there is some evidence for Canadian moderation, they argue that the smug Canadian self-image is exaggerated.
520 8 $aCold War Canada digs past the official moderation and uncovers a systematic state-sponsored repression of communists and the Left, directed at civil servants, scientists, trade unionists, and political activists. Unlike the United States, Canada's purges were shrouded in secrecy imposed by the government and avidly supported by the RCMP security service. Whitaker and Marcuse manage to reconstruct several of the significant anti-communist campaigns.
520 8 $aUsing declassified documents, interviews, and extensive archival sources, the authors reconstruct the Gouzenko spy scandal, trace the growth of security screening of civil servants, and re-examine purges in the National Film Board and the trade unions, attacks on peace activist James G. Endicott, and the trials of Canadian diplomat Herbert Norman.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aBased on these examples Whitaker and Marcuse outline the creation of Canada's Cold War policy, the emergence of the new security state, and the alignment of Canada with the United States in the global Cold War.
520 8 $aThey demonstrate that Canada did take a different approach towards the threat of communism, but argue that the secret repression and silent purges used to stifle dissent and debate about Canada's own role in the Cold War had a chilling effect on the practice of liberal democracy and undermined Canadian political and economic sovereignty.
651 0 $aCanada$xPolitics and government$y1945-1980.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019348
650 0 $aNational security$zCanada.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108221
650 0 $aCold War.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005637
700 1 $aMarcuse, Gary.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95063935
852 00 $boff,glx$hF1034.2$i.W547 1994g