- Title:
- Cold actions, cold methods, cold war: Canadian foreign policy and the Prague coup of 1948.
- Creator:
- Villeneuve, Susan A.
- Date Created:
- 1995
- Degree Awarded:
- Master of Arts
- Subjects:
- Coup D'etat, 1948 Foreign Relations Soviet Union Cold War World Politics 1945- Propaganda, Communist
- Geographical Focus:
- Czechoslovakia
- Supporting Materials:
- n/a
- Description:
- This thesis will view Canadian Cold War policies through the prism of the coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948. It is the first account, based on primary sources, of the Canadian government’s response to the coup in Czechoslovakia, of government and media attitudes towards the republic, and of the manner in which the Communist revolution in 1948 affected foreign po'icy. It will also examine some of the perceptions that Canadian diplomats and foreign policy experts held about the Soviet Union and Communist ideology between 1943 when Canada set up its first Moscow diplomatic mission, and 1949, the year that NATO was formed. The aim of this thesis is to comnare attitudes before and after the coup in order to assess Canadian images of the Soviet Union, and also test historians’ claims about Canada’s role in the Western alliance and the Cold War.
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- Villeneuve, Susan A.. 1995. "Cold actions, cold methods, cold war: Canadian foreign policy and the Prague coup of 1948.", Department of History, Carleton University
- Link to this page:
- https://cuhistory.github.io/grads/items/hist_221.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright the author, all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.