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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... Intellectual life -- 1917- 2. Dissenters -- Soviet Union . 3 . Sovietologists . 4. Totalitarianism . I. Title . DK287.L33 1988 947.084 -- dc19 88-20083 CIP Preface Contents Zbigniew Brzezinski 1 I Great Dissidents 1. Solzhenitsyn's.
... intellectual ferment in the Soviet Union . Having denounced Stalin in his " secret speech " , Khrushchev constantly oscillated between thaw and freeze , between the policy of relaxation and the policy of repression . The sorcerer's ...
... intellectuals ( reproduced in our book , but unpublished in the Soviet Union ) give the arguments of the defence and details of what went on during the preliminary investigation , as well as in the courtroom . Thus , from the letters of ...
... intellectual as well as legal implications . Lydia Chukovskaya asserted that " Sin/avsky's and Daniel's committal to trial was in itself illegal " ; and five members of the Institute of Linguistics declared : " Never before in the ...
... intellectuals lies in the fact that the behaviour of the defendants raised , for the first time , the issue of the intellectuals ' right to independent thought . In their protests , they were explicitly concerned with freedom of thought ...
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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 |