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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... Moscow " show trials " and in Washington through the era of Detente . In his writings , Labedz demonstrates a tenacious independence of mind . Even if he were the only proponent of a particular point of view , he would not be swayed ...
... Moscow through Ambassador Jarring in an attempt to discover what the reactions of the Kremlin would be to the possible choice of Solzhenitsyn . . . . In the end , however , the decision to award the prize to Solzhenitsyn prevailed ...
... Moscow directed against the Swedish Academy . It was not true , as the Soviet press had asserted , that the Academy had yielded to outside pressures or that it had lent itself to the manoeuvres of ' White ' emigres in France and Germany ...
... Moscow , he was sentenced by the special board of the NKVD , the secret police , to eight years hard labour in a prison camp . The verdict was pronounced in his absence , a standard procedure during the years of Stalin's rule of terror ...
... Moscow writers ' organization he was still supported by the majority of those present , who passed a resolution calling for the publication of Cancer Ward . But by then the battle for the publication of The First Circle in Novy Mir had ...
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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 |