The Strangest Dream

Canadian Communists, the Spy Trials, and the Cold War

By: Merrily Weisbord

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Paperback | 1 September 2022 | Edition Number 3

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Lauded as the most eloquent book about Canadian communists and written like drama, The Strangest Dream animates the history and life of militants from the 1930's to the 1956 Khruschev revelations about Stalin.

Published originally in 1983, this Third Edition contains a new preface by the author, additional photographs, and previously unpublished letters.

An antidote to recurrent anti-communist vitriol, The Strangest Dream evokes not only the struggle "to make a better world," but the warmth, generosity, songs, theatre, art, and exhilaration of party members for whom comradeship meant a way of life. Merrily Weisbord's research and contacts unearth historical documents and rare testimonies, including that of Canada's only communist MP, and of the accused in the Cold War spy trials.

The Strangest Dream is witness to the heyday and legacy of Canadian communistsâ courage and social conscience, and to the forces that destroyed their dreams.

Industry Reviews

A generation of radicals comes to life in their own words and feelings as passionate, complicated, frequently attractive and certainly compelling human beings. - Rick Salutin

In beautiful and affecting prose this fine study gets a people's thoughts and motives in a way that no other study on Canadian communism has done. - J.L. Granatstein

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