The Use and Abuse of SovietologyTransaction Publishers, 01/01/1989 - 372 من الصفحات "This is a work by a fighter, a thinker, and an idealist. Leo Labedz is a fighter who minces no words in his contempt for the apologists of totalitarianism. He never rests in his efforts to enlarge the scope of human freedom, and many have felt the sharp edge of his political scalpel. He is a thinker with a penetrating mind and en-cyclopedic knowledge. He is an idealist who believes in sacrificing for the just cause to which he has dedicated his life." With these words of extraordinary praise, Zbigniew Brzezinski opens this volume of critical and polemical essays by Leopold Labedz. His knowledge of Soviet affairs, as seen through the eyes of the crusaders and critics of the Modern Russian State, is peerless. Chapters, which include major studies of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, George Orwell, Noam Chomsky, George Kennan, and Leszek Kolakowski among others, es-tablish Labedz as among the most incisive analysts of Soviet affairs as well as those who presume special expertise in this ar-cane field. Labedz's impassioned writing covers not only Sovietologists, but also the major fault lines with which totalitarian systems have been uniquely identified. His writings on the Holocaust, student revolt, European unity, and the meaning of detente, help provide a perspective with which to assess present moods and policies within the still ever-present Soviet bloc. The anthology was prepared and edited by Melvin J. Lasky, the editor of Encounter, in which many of these materials initially appeared. |
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... Communist publications — he did not isolate himself from events . An argumentative man , he sought to convince ... Communists and American Trotskyites ( present and past ) , of the rightness of his point of view . He participated in the ...
... communist writer , Arthur Lundquist ) : 1 " The decision was difficult and not unanimous . The eighteen Academicians , who during the summer had examined the works of the candidates , were divided to the last between Solzhenitsyn and ...
... communist Reporter and the anti - anti - communist New Statesman had him as a regular contributor . The pillars of the British Establishment listened to him in 1956 explaining the historical ambivalence of the unprogressive Hungarian ...
... communist and at the age of 19 joined the illegal Communist Party . This was not an unusual evolution . Many other members of the Jewish intelligentsia looked to communism for a solution of the " Jewish question " in a country where ...
... communist Jewish idealists regarded as the instrument of its real " solution " , the Polish Communist Party , and annihilated its leadership . By that time Deutscher had been long out of the Party . He was expelled in 1932 for writing a ...
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E H Carr Overtaken by History | 94 |
Chomsky Revisited | 112 |
Alexander Werth | 126 |
Kolakowski On Marxism and Beyond | 135 |
Will George Orwell Survive 1984? | 155 |
Raymond Arons Vindication | 217 |
The Two Minds of George Kennan | 223 |
Holocaust Myths Horrors | 240 |
The Student Revolt of the 1960s | 264 |
Détente An Evaluation | 291 |
The Question of European Unity | 319 |
On Literature Revolution | 332 |
Appreciating Milosz | 205 |