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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... University , New Brunswick , New Jersey 08903 . - Library of Congress Catalog Number : 88-20083 ISBN : 0-88738-252-5 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Labedz , Leopold . The ...
... University , he won a Stalin scholarship for postgraduate studies . The gods are ironical : the future author of One Day and of The First Circle used it to follow his literary bent ( of which he was conscious before he was ten ) , and ...
... University Law School , in August 1966 ) called Sinyavsky a " scoundrel " . Had Sinyavsky " recanted " , he would ... universities , have suddenly become accomplices of our worst enemies ? " This he attributed , in the usual stereotyped ...
... University where a Chassidic youngster writing poetry in Polish was something of an attraction . His poems were published in the Cracow Polish - language Jewish journal , Nowy Dziennik . Some had a Zionist character , but soon Deutscher ...
... University Press , 1954 ) . The same applies to the young Polish revisionists whom Deutscher scolded in 1957 and implored not to become " renegades " . " He is haunted by a vague sense that he DEUTSCHER AS HISTORIAN AND PROPHET 37.
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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 |