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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... expressed great pleasure at the award and referred warmly to Dr Karl Ragnar Gierow ( the same Swedish Academy spokesman who was later to notify Solzhenitsyn of his award ) . Gone was the abusive condemnation ( made at the time of the ...
... expression — the trial of Socrates , the condemnation of Giordano Bruno , the theological arraignment of Galileo ... expressed in almost every country , including their own — difficult as it was to manifest it there . But when they ...
... expression . . . literary conventions , hyperbole , and so on " , adding that " the court tore away their window - dressing and laid bare their hostile essence " ( Izvestia , 16 February 1966 ) . He added : " One can hardly imagine a ...
... expressed , nor hyperbolic images used . " Both in Tzarist and Soviet Russia writers have been persecuted only too often ; many were sentenced to katorga , prison , forced labour camps ; and some were shot . But none before had been ...
... expressed in " Radio Erevan " jokes ) . It would seem that the Soviet state is so dependent upon the Byzantine verbal reverence of its subjects — on a frozen , outward ritual of piety — that it feels itself truly " undermined " and ...
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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 |