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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... labour in a prison camp . The verdict was pronounced in his absence , a standard procedure during the years of Stalin's rule of terror . He served his sentence partly in a special prison in Moscow , where he was sent because of his ...
... labour camps or to exile in the remoter parts of the country . W HEN , in 1970 , the Soviet authorities were preparing the final act in the Solzhenitsyn drama , the Swedish Academy announced its award of the Nobel Prize for Literature ...
... labour — as a terrorist . Gumilyov was shot in 1921 — as a participant in an anti - revolutionary plot . Under Stalin , Pilnyak , Mandelshtam , Babel , and thousands of other intellectuals and writers were sent to prison or to Siberian ...
... labour camp . In his final plea he had complained that the Glavlit " expert evidence " on his story read literally : " The author thinks it possible that a ' Homosexuals ' Day ' could be held in our country . " Little did he imagine ...
... labour camps for having committed the sin of expressing their own authentic emotions and thoughts in a state where the rulers are still unwilling to allow their subjects to think or feel for themselves.7 A MORE STRIKING JUXTAPOSITION ...
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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 |