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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... less comprehensive ; fortunately it does not yet completely cover the ethical and aesthetic . Yet , given that this important point has been grasped , the fact remains that the decision of the Swedish Academy is one of the most ...
... less liberal , as the expulsion of Solzhenitsyn from the Ryazan writers ' organization testifies . Of the four Nobel Prizes awarded to Russian writers , three are not acknowledged by the Soviet authorities . Pasternak was forced to ...
... less vocal than from the Right . The socialist Tribune's editorial called on the Soviet Government to " stop this stupid trial " ; The New Statesman wrote that , by staging it , Soviet justice had put itself on trial . The international ...
... Less than 10 years ago , at a meeting of Moscow writers in October 1958 , even such admirable poets as Martynov and Slutsky joined in the witch hunt against Pasternak and the cry for his expulsion from Russia . This shameful servility ...
... less impressive than those of the Decembrists ' women . ) Although the situation in the camps is not quite as grim as under Stalin , it remains very harsh indeed . Each camp contains about a thousand prisoners , mainly political , or ...
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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 |