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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... January 1963 in New York , began with the words : " [ This book ] is beyond doubt the most startling work ever to have been published in the Soviet Union . Apart from being a literary masterpiece , it is a revolutionary document that ...
... January 1973 ) , with reference to the article in the New York Times ( 8 January 1973 ) by an official of the Soviet Novosti agency , Scmyon Vladimirov , who painted a picture of Solzhenitsyn living a life of " luxury and leisure " , he ...
... January 1966 ) : " The law must stand above passions and emotions . If those who serve the law infringe this very first commandment , we shall all suffer . For any retreat from the law means the direct road to arbitrary rule . Let the ...
... January 1967 ) demanding the abolition , as contrary to the Constitution , of the legislation of 16 September 1966 and of Article 70 of the criminal code ( under which Sinyavsky and Daniel , and , subsequently , several young writers ...
... January 1967 , Pravda attacked it for " stubbornness in defence of erroneous positions " . On 19 February 1967 , Izvestia castigated it for preaching " passive humanism " . Its joint deputy - editor ( A. G. Dementiev ) and its lay - out ...
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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 |