1. Winnipeg General Strike 1919
Internationaly the European situation was a stressor, the Great War had only just ended and the revolution in Russia was still occurring. ... The One Big Union had been inspired by the Russian Revolution and with a solid socialist leadership was quickly able to claim the majority of the western Canadian and Northern Ontario labor movement within its ranks. ... When the Bolshevik's victory in Russia was complete these complaints grew more common. ... The example of the Russian Revolution, the brave new worlds and peaceful utopias of wartime oratory and idealism, had bred in many an un...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate