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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... become best - sellers in all the countries where they were published . On the face of it there should be nothing surprising in the fact that honour has been given where honour was due . In conferring the world's highest literary award ...
... become a " run - of - the - mill writer " ( Soviet Weekly , 17 October 1970 ) . With his friend and protector Tvardovsky on his Earlier even his opponents granted him at least that . Fedin said at the meeting of the Secretariat of the ...
... become known to some highly placed officials . As could be expected , the cause of my downfall was the dragnet , which had been fixed in the big sewage pipe under our house . The rough drafts I had conscientiously flushed down the drain ...
... become accomplices of our worst enemies ? " This he attributed , in the usual stereotyped way , to the " extreme lack of ideological discipline and moral responsibility of the accused " . The explanation is of course irrelevant : it ...
... becomes a truly sincere and valuable being once he loses his official attributes — his profession , name , age . . . . Both under his own name and under his nom de plume Sinyavsky remained true to himself . For him ( as for the Soviet ...
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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 |