{"product_id":"conversations-with-trotsky-bruce-nesbitt-9780776624631","title":"Conversations with Trotsky: Earle Birney and the Radical 1930s","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection presents all of Earle Birney's known published and unpublished writings on Trotsky and Trotskyism for the very first time.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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBefore 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished in English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce Nesbitt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0776624636\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780776624631\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Ottawa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/09\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.50w x 1.00d","brand":"Bruce Nesbitt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372313235711,"sku":"9780776624631","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0e754f27-9acc-457c-bc35-5d37f1e6ea8c.jpg?v=1732725604","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/conversations-with-trotsky-bruce-nesbitt-9780776624631","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}