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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... Russian State , is I peerless . Chapters , which include major e studies of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn , George Orwell , Noam Chomsky , George Kennan , s and Leszek Kolakowski among others , es- tablish Labedz as among the most incisive s ...
... Russian and innovatively Soviet . At the same time , Labedz is not an ivory - tower academic but an activist - scholar . While his house is crammed full of books and documents— with innumerable large black plastic bags full of thousands ...
... Russian author , the Swedish Academy was not taking a political decision . If anything , not to have awarded the prize to Solzhenitsyn would have been a political decision arising from other than literary considerations . This can be ...
... Russian literature " . Solzhenitsyn's writings , well known in the West , provide ample evidence for this citation . But its full significance can be gauged only against the background of his life , of his fate as an individual and a ...
... Russia first . During 1966 and 1967 Solzhenitsyn was subjected to increased pressure : he became the target for a growing ... Russian Federation section of the Writers ' Union which invited him to leave the country and live in the West ...
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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 |