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'Fight for Life': Dave Kashtan's Memories of Depression-Era Communist Youth Work
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Authors/contributors
- Niergarth, Kirk (Author)
- Kashtan, Dave (Author)
Title
'Fight for Life': Dave Kashtan's Memories of Depression-Era Communist Youth Work
Abstract
Dave Kashtan, who was born in 1912, reminisces about his life and times in as a young Communist activist in Montreal in the late 1920s and 1930s, during which he visited the Soviet Union and was also jailed for a year for allegedly seditious remarks made at a public meeting in Montreal. Published posthumously, Kashtan's memoir (entitled "Living in One's Time") is introduced and edited by Kirk Niergarth.
Publication
Labour / Le Travail
Volume
56
Pages
199-236
Date
Fall 2005
Journal Abbr
Labour / Le Travail
ISSN
07003862
Short Title
'Fight for Life'
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4/23/15, 9:15 PM
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EBSCOhost
Notes
Abstract by Desmond Maley.
Citation
Niergarth, K., & Kashtan, D. (2005). “Fight for Life”: Dave Kashtan’s Memories of Depression-Era Communist Youth Work. Labour / Le Travail, 56, 199–236. http://www.lltjournal.ca/index.php/llt/issue/view/510
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