Joe Zuken, Citizen and SocialistA long-time Winnipeg communist city councillor and school trustee, Joe Zuken was loved and hated in about equal measure. He was ignored by no one. The son of Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine, Zuken received his political education in the hard school of the Great Depression. His subsequent career as a lawyer and municipal politician highlights the forces that dominated Winnipeg's social and political life from the 1930s to the 1980s: the impact of European migration, the growth of radicalism, the internment of communists in World War Two, the political witchunting of the Cold War. Joe Zuken: Citizen and Socialist examines these issues through the life of a man who, through good times and bad, remained passionately devoted to social justice. |
Contents
A Political Education 19291940 | 29 |
It Did Happen Here 19331940 | 51 |
The Defence of Canada 19401942 | 71 |
The School Board Years 19421962 | 104 |
The Cold War in Manitoba 19451962 | 131 |
A Shield for the Poor 19401986 | 164 |
A Communist at City Hall 19621971 | 182 |
The Unicity Years 19721983 | 213 |
Epilogue | 256 |
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