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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... evidence for this citation . But its full significance can be gauged only against the background of his life , of his fate as an individual and a writer ( a fate shared by millions of Soviet citizens and hundreds of Soviet writers ) ...
... evidence and of the drama in the courtroom reached the outside world . This book gives a detailed account of the proceedings and allows a fuller assessment to be made . The record shows that the trial of Sinyavsky and Daniel was so ...
Melvin J. Lasky. Yet the learned judge had no qualms in allowing as evidence the tape- recorded conversation of Sinyavsky , secured by means of precisely such a device installed in his flat ! In one respect the two trials were similar ...
... evidence was there . Besides , Globov , who was called as a witness , produced documents which proved my guilt conclusively and in full . In the course of the interrogation , it was established that everything I had written was pure ...
... evidence of experts and witnesses . . . . ' 99 and Radio Moscow added : " What impudence ! they try to deny the evidence , but they were put with their backs to the wall by the Prosecution . " Similar " indignation " was aroused by the ...
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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 |