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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... Communism and a preceptive analysis for those statesmen who need to understand the Soviet Union . Leo Labedz never suffered from any of the illusions which periodically have blinded Western scholars to the truth of the repressiveness ...
... Communists and American Trotskyites ( present and past ) , of the rightness of his point of view . He participated in ... Communism , and the Soviet dissident movement all stand as testaments to the breadth of his mind . This collection ...
... Communism , and hatred , as everyone knows , is a poor counsellor . . . . " The ludicrous idea of Tertz as a White emigre living in Paris could no longer be maintained in court ; but apart from this , there was no difference in the ...
... communism for a solution of the " Jewish question " in a country where anti - semitism was endemic , where discrimination barred the way to a career , and poverty and obscurantism were rampant . There were many paradoxes which the ...
... communism , but — to crown the irony — those among them who survived witnessed the persecution of the " rootless ... Communists were busy attacking the " Social - fascists " of the SPD ) . Before his expulsion , Deutscher was secretary ...
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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 |