A Canadian's Road to Russia: The Letters of Stuart Ramsey Tompkins

Download or read book A Canadian's Road to Russia: The Letters of Stuart Ramsey Tompkins written by Stuart Ramsay Tompkins and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1989 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuart Ramsay Tompkins belonged to the generation of scholars that came of age in Canada after the turn of the century and was tempered by the First World War. His letters to his wife, Edna, from 1912 to 1919, provide an eloquent record of his courtship and marriage; sharp observations of government and politics, both military and civil; an articulate participant's view of war in the trenches; and discerning and sensitive reactions to Siberia and China in 1919. The letters recount pivotal experiences that shaped the future professor who would become one of North America's pioneer specialists in Russian history. Edited by Doris H. Pieroth.