Red Travellers
Jeanne Corbin & Her Comrades
Format:Hardback
Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
Published:3rd Nov '06
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Jeanne Corbin typifies the female militants of the first generation of Canadian Communists. This work is an account of the experiences of Corbin and her female comrades. It reveals the essential role women played in the movement. It also shows that these women subordinated gender issues to the class struggle.The story of a life devoted to promoting communism illuminates Canadian labour and social history in the interwar years.
"The originality and importance of this work lies in the character of Corbin herself and in the remarkable job Levesque has done telling her story." Karen Dubinsky, Queen's University "Levesque vividly negotiates, with great skill and sensitivity, the embattled and often quite heroic struggles of communists and their failures, mistakes, and subordinations to Moscow. There are no comparable books with such a developed sophistication and sensibility." Bryan Palmer, Trent University
ISBN: 9780773531253
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 466g
248 pages