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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... camp in Dzezkazgan in the province of Karaganda where a vast network of such camps had been built . The earlier experience provided the canvas for The First Circle , the later for One Day and for the play The Tenderfoot and the Tramp ...
... camps or to exile in the remoter parts of the country . W HEN , in 1970 , the Soviet authorities were preparing the final act in the Solzhenitsyn drama , the Swedish Academy announced its award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to ...
... camp and the cancer ward are for him places in which to reflect not just on the problems presented by " extreme situations " , but on the wider questions of Soviet reality and of our epoch , of good and evil , in short la condition ...
... camp where the narator and his fellow prisoners , in where the narrator and his fellow prisoners , having failed in their " essential duty of co - operating in the effort to bring the Glorious Future nearer " , are digging ditches . The ...
... camps ; and some were shot . But none before had been tried in a regular court of justice specifically for their writings . They were dealt with ( as the sinister Russian phrase has it ) " on the administrative level " , or tried for ...
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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 |