Conversations with Trotsky - (Canadian Literature Collection) by Bruce Nesbitt (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>Conversations with Trotsky</i> provides a unique insight into Canadian Trotskyism during the Radical 1930s through an original collection of Birney's work.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This collection presents all of Earle Birney's known published and unpublished writings on Trotsky and Trotskyism for the very first time. It includes their correspondence as well as a selection of Birney's letters and literary writings. <br> Before he became one of Canada's most influential and popular twentieth century poets, Earle Birney lived a double life. To his students and colleagues, he was an engaging university lecturer and scholar. But for seven years--from 1933 to 1940--the great Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was the focus of his writing and much of his life. <br> During his years as a Trotskyist in Canada, the United States and England, Birney wrote extensively about Trotsky, corresponded with him, organized Trotskyist cells in two countries, and recruited on behalf of Trotskyism; he also lectured on Trotsky and interviewed him over the course of several days. One of his two novels is based on some of these activities. <br> The collection traces the origins of Trotsky's mistrust of "the British" to his experiences in Canada; shows Birney's influence on a major shift in Trotsky's policy of "entrism" in British politics; includes the largest body of Trotskyist criticism in Canadian literary history; and demonstrates the need for a radical re-reading of Birney's poetry in light of his Trotskyism.
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