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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... contemporary writer did not appear in the seventh volume of the Soviet Literary Encyclopaedia published in 1973. Officially , Alexander Solzhenitsyn had already ceased to exist as a writer before he was expelled from the Writers ' Union ...
... contemporary problems , the trial has dramatically highlighted the limitations imposed on them in this respect . In the circumstances , the issue is as much that of " truth " as of " freedom " . Commenting on what it called " the old ...
... contemporary Russian literature . The behaviour of the two Nobel - Prize - winners , Pasternak and Sholokhov , is a direct illustration of this contrast . The attitude of Sinyavsky to Pasternak on the one hand , and that of Sholokhov to ...
... contemporary history a calm temper " ? Deutscher has always said that he is politically engaged . At the opening meeting of the " New Left Club " in London he ended his speech with the call : " Forward to the Red Sixties " . The ...
... contemporary conservatism . Not infrequently he denounces even the mildest brand of the ' welfare state ' as ' legislative Bolshevism ' . " This description of the ex - communist Conservative die - hard hardly applies to the six writers ...
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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 |