Peter Vronsky is the
producer-writer-director of
Mondo Moscow: The Art & Magic
of Not Being There (1992) a feature documentary on subtextual Stalinism
in Moscow during the last months of waning Soviet Russia. Among the many films Vronsky has made is
Dada's Boys Crash'n'Burn (1977), depicting the birth of
Canadian punk rock and
Russian
Rock Underground (1988) a documentary about "unofficial" rock in
the Soviet Union during the mid-Gorbachev era which can viewed on his
YouTube Channel.
Peter Vronsky worked as an undercover investigative producer for CNN,
CBC, CTV, Discovery and other television networks on locations from
Chechnya to South Africa. He is the author of a controversial
history of Canada's forgotten first modern battle,
Ridgeway: The American Fenian
Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada.
Dr.
Vronsky currently lectures in the history of terrorism,
international relations, the Third Reich and American Civil War in the History
Department of Ryerson
University in Toronto. [more]
