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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... Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Government ( Pravda , 28 October 1965 ) . On 21 October 1970 Dr Karl Ragnar Gierow informed the press conference in Stockholm that he had sent a letter to the chief editor of Literaturnaya Gazeta ...
... Party on aesthetic or ethical grounds is in itself termed " political " . In the West the definition is less comprehensive ; fortunately it does not yet completely cover the ethical and aesthetic . Yet , given that this important point ...
... Party was one of considerable political and intellectual ferment in the Soviet Union . Having denounced Stalin in his " secret speech " , Khrushchev constantly oscillated between thaw and freeze , between the policy of relaxation and ...
... Party , and because it could be used against them , that Solzhenitsyn made his explosive literary debut with the publication of One Day in November 1962.3 It was not long , however , before the die - hards ' counter - offensive began ...
... Party line , and who , after eulogising Stalin , was later on the best of terms with Khrushchev . Sinyavsky , after Khrushchev's speech , expressed the horror felt by his generation for Stalin's crimes , but he placed the guilt where it ...
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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 |