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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... past ) , of the rightness of his point of view . He participated in the revolutionary developments in Poland in 1979-81 from the London centre of the KOR and Solidarity . He organized petitions for political prisoners in the Soviet ...
... past . And not only as a document , but also as a passionate human response to what is happening in the world . " Konstantin Paustovsky was ( as I know from a personal conversation ) an admirer of Solzhenitsyn . IKE OTHER major ...
... past . I suppose that we have come after others in order to avoid their mistakes , illusions and superstitions . . . . " The Sinyavsky - Daniel case has , for the first time in Soviet history , provided the occasion for Soviet ...
... past , though they were also concerned with its effect on the present and the possibility of its revival . Clearly , had the authorities decided to make a clean sweep of the " survivals of the cult of personality " , they would have ...
... past , refused to identify themselves with any established Cause " . He , the " Heretic " , unlike the Communist " Renegade " , follows in the footsteps of Goethe , and Shelley : like these three " outsiders to the great conflict of ...
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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 |