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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... became more intense in 1965 , with the former on the defensive and steadily losing ground . At the meeting of the prose section of the Moscow writers ' organization he was still supported by the majority of those present , who passed a ...
... became the target for a growing slander campaign and his manuscripts and archives were seized by the KGB . DURING ALL THIS TIME he fought a vigorous defensive battle and found many supporters and admirers . His open letter to the 4th ...
... became known that Sinyavsky and Daniel were serving their sentence in two " strict regime " camps in the Autonomous Republic of Mordovia . The conditions were poor , the two " literary prisoners " were overworked and undernourished ...
... became a socialist and hoped to be able to work for the socialist Cracow daily , Naprzod ; but he gave up the idea and moved to Warsaw , where he became a communist and at the age of 19 joined the illegal Communist Party . This was not ...
... became a reactionary socially and all of them remained liberal politically . But it is true that some cx - Communists have a tendency to reaction - formation or to manic denial . Georg Simmel in his classical analysis of the phenomenon ...
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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 |