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Roland Penner, A Glowing Dream: A Memoir.

Publication: Labour/Le Travail
Publication Date: 22-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Roland Penner, A Glowing Dream: A Memoir.(Book review)

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Roland Penner, A Glowing Dream: A Memoir (Winnipeg: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 2007)

ROLAND PENNER is the son of an atypical but quintessentially Manitoban matrimonial match: his communist, ethnically Mennonite father Jacob trained as a land-surveyor in Czarist Russia, and his Jewish mother Rose was a non-religious and culturally engaged radical. Although they were born 200 kilometers apart in Europe, they first met at a fiery "Red" Emma Goldman lecture--on one of her five visits to Winnipeg--organized by the anarchist branch of the city's Radical Club. Old World events had radicalized both parents; one witnessed a Cossack massacre of over 200 striking metalworkers, the other rallied on Odessa's docks in support of the mutinous sailors on the battleship Potemkin. Father Jacob broke with his conventional religious family and, in 1921, became one of the 22 founders of the then underground Communist Party of Canada. He went on to serve as a popular Winnipeg alderman for a quarter century. His vote totals progressively increased and there is now a city park named for him. The title's "glowing dream" refers to the Penners' inter-generational commitment to social justice and equality.

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