LEADER 04640nam 2200721 450 001 9910787487903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-2315-2 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442623156 035 $a(CKB)3710000000329293 035 $a(EBL)4669959 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001420478 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12611304 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001420478 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11404062 035 $a(PQKB)11725487 035 $a(DE-B1597)465635 035 $a(OCoLC)1013947139 035 $a(OCoLC)944178935 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442623156 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4669959 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256473 035 $a(OCoLC)958564925 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4669959 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000329293 100 $a20160920h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPlateaus of freedom $enationality, culture, and state security in Canada, 1940-1960 /$fMark Kristmanson 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (319 p.) 225 1 $aCanadian Social History Series 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-19-541803-4 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Characterizations of Tracy Philipps -- $t2. Love Your Neighbour: The RCMP and the National Film Board, 1948-1953 -- $t3. Remembering To Forget -- $t4. State Security and Cultural Administration: The Case of Peter Dwyer -- $t5. Pulp History: Repossessing the Gouzenko Myth -- $t6. 'I Came To Sing': Paul Robeson on the Border -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $a'Canadians are not accustomed to thinking of censorship, secret intelligence, and propaganda as a single entity. Much less do they consider that these covertly militaristic activities have anything to do with culture.' So writes Mark Krismanson in this important study of the intertwining activities and careers of those involved in Canada's security agencies and in the state-sanctioned culture industry during the delight of the Cold War. The connections between secret intelligence and culture might appear to be merely coincidental. Both the spies and the arts people worked with words, with symbols and hidden meanings, with ideas. They had regular informal luncheons together in Ottawa. Some members of the intelligence community even found careers in the arts. Less than a decade after defecting, the Russian Igor Gouzenko wrote a pulp fiction Cold War spy novel- for which he received a Governor General's award. And Peter Dwyer, Britain's top security official in North America during World War II, was a playwright who after the war worked in Canada's intelligence community before drafting the founding for the Canada Council and becoming its first director. But Plateaus of Freedom details much more than a casual relationship between security and the arts. As Kristmanson demonstrates, 'the censorship-intelligence-propaganda complex that proliferated in Canada after World War II played a counterpoint between national culture and state security, with the result that freedom, especially intellectual freedom, plateaued on the principle of nationality.' The security and cultural policy measures examined here, from the RCMP investigations at the National Film Board that led to numerous firings, to the harassment of the extraordinary African-American singer and Soviet sympathizer Paul Robeson, 'attest to the fragility and the enduring power of art to effect social change'. 410 0$aCanadian social history series. 606 $aPolitics and culture$zCanada$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aArt and state$zCanada$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aInternal security$zCanada$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aIntelligence service$zCanada$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCold War 607 $aCanada$xCultural policy 607 $aCanada$xIntellectual life$y20th century 607 $aCanada$xPolitics and government$y1945- 615 0$aPolitics and culture$xHistory 615 0$aArt and state$xHistory 615 0$aInternal security$xHistory 615 0$aIntelligence service$xHistory 615 0$aCold War. 676 $a971.063 700 $aKristmanson$b Mark$f1960-$01281782 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787487903321 996 $aPlateaus of freedom$93682115 997 $aUNINA