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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... letter to the chief editor of Literaturnaya Gazeta , Alexander Chakovsky . He said that the decision was taken to make the letter known to the world when Literaturnaya Gazeta had not had the courtesy to publish his letter or to correct ...
... letters to a friend . In July 1945 , while in the notorious Lubyanka prison in Moscow , he was sentenced by the special board of the NKVD , the secret police , to eight years hard labour in a prison camp . The verdict was pronounced in ...
... letter to the 4th Writers ' Congress ( May 1967 ) is the most eloquent plea for the freedom of literature that has ever appeared in the Soviet Union . His hard experience and his knowledge of the law were important assets in his conduct ...
... fate has a bearing not only on the struggle between the Russian literary " liberals " and " diehards " , but on the whole internal evolution of the Soviet " The man of letters is without recourse . He Union . 14 SINYAVSKY & DANIEL.
... letter , was by then dead , and his personality was indeed undergoing a widespread public reappraisal . Nevertheless ... letters , protests , and appeals from individuals and organisations to the Soviet authorities , urging them to ...
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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 |