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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... Western scholars to the truth of the repressiveness and aggressiveness of the Soviet Union . This was a result in part of what he once described to a friend as his personal lesson in " comparative totalitarianism " . He was 19 years old ...
... Western journalists it was nerve - racking and precarious . He had to exert himself to the utmost to continue his literary work and his struggle . It was not only civic courage which was required to face political adversity ; it also ...
... Western writer's reaction to the idea of a court of law reproving him for such 2 When , seven months after the trial , changes in the criminal code were made , aimed at the suppression of various forms of criticism , they evoked a ...
... Western reviewers of Tcrtz's essay , On Socialist Realism , with failing to appreciate that Tertz was a White emigre who masqueraded as a Soviet writer living in Russia : " The identity of the anonymous author of the article , published ...
... its entrance to frighten the Western public and to show that an accommodating attitude of non - resistance was really best , as the alternative was too frightful to contemplate . The reshuffle of the DEUTSCHER AS HISTORIAN AND PROPHET 39.
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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 |