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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... living again in his native Poland . With the wartime partition of Poland between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia , many families had to face the stark choice of deciding whether to flee East or West , into Nazi- or Soviet- occupied ...
... living writer , although his works are banned there , and he is highly praised by critics and readers all over the world . His books , One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich , The First Circle , and Cancer Ward , have become best ...
... living as a typist . Life was even harder for a young widow with a small son than for the population in general during the 1920s and ' 30s , the years which included the post - Revolution and post - collectivization famines . Alexander ...
... living and there is no need to worry about the fate of their books . In that lies the strength of true works of art ; having served their own time , they retain their irresistibility and their power of conviction even when that time ...
... living a life of " luxury and leisure " , he was subject to a continuous " campaign of defamation " which culminated in surreptitious threats to his life and in open official threats ( after the Yakir - Krasin trial ) that he might be ...
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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 |