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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... Myths & Horrors 240 13. The Student Revolt of the 1960s 264 14. Détente : An Evaluation 291 15. The Question of European Unity 319 16. On Literature & Revolution 332 Preface Zbigniew Brzezinski HIS IS a work by a fighter.
... myths , and the mortal dangers of both Gulag and Kazett . He believed that going west would mean certain death and that going east , while perilous , would at least offer a chance to survive . As it turned out , between Siberia and ...
... myth and his other " hare - brained schemes " . It was at the climax of Khrushchev's until then successful struggle with his more die - hard opponents in the Party , and because it could be used against them , that Solzhenitsyn made his ...
... mythology . In an article , " Socialist Realism and its Detractors " ( published in Foreign Literature in January 1962 ) , Boris Ryurikov reproached Western reviewers of Tcrtz's essay , On Socialist Realism , with failing to appreciate ...
... myth of totalitarian infallibility , and it must push the Soviet regime towards deep internal transformations , towards the freedom of the working masses . The democratisation of the Soviet regime will not only be a powerful stimulus ...
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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 |