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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... October 1970 ) . Arthur Lundquist is a Lenin Prize winner and a friend of Sholokhov . He is one of the committee of ... October 1965 ) . On 21 October 1970 Dr Karl Ragnar Gierow informed the press conference in Stockholm that he had sent ...
... October 1941 ) and served as an artillery officer all the way from Kursk to Konigsberg ( now Kaliningrad ) . He was twice decorated and in 1945 was promoted to a captaincy . What followed was the first step on his road to Calvary : he ...
... October 1970 ) . With his friend and protector Tvardovsky on his Earlier even his opponents granted him at least that . Fedin said at the meeting of the Secretariat of the Writers ' Union ( on 22 September 1967 ) : " None of us denies ...
... October 1970 ) . The Academy has indeed made many errors of judgement during the 70 years in which the Prize has been given , but this particular argument was not used in the Soviet press when it was Sholokhov who received the award ...
... October 1958 , even such admirable poets as Martynov and Slutsky joined in the witch hunt against Pasternak and the cry for his expulsion from Russia . This shameful servility has now been replaced , not just by dignified silence , but ...
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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 |