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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... reason that to send manuscripts abroad is not illegal . Yet , undeterred by this , the Prosecutor in his final speech again referred to the prisoners having sent their manuscripts out " illegally " . It also highlights the ignorance ...
... reasons why the defendants had published their work abroad , the Judge and the Prosecution might have consulted Herzen ( Selected Philosophical Works , published in 1956 — in Moscow — where on page 561 they would have found the ...
... well have taken place — not between two characters in a novel — but between Sinyavsky and Daniel . They too are " still digging " . But this could not , and cannot , be the end of the epilogue , for a reason which SINYAVSKY & DANIEL 31.
Melvin J. Lasky. the end of the epilogue , for a reason which Sinyavsky - Tertz gives in the same novel , in which he so amazingly anticipated his later fate . " The Court is in session , it is in session throughout the world . And not ...
... reasons for his popularity ? Were his prognostications right , as he constantly asserts ? How accurate is he as a historian ? Has he in fact , as a reviewer in the Economist declared , brought " to the study of contemporary history a ...
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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 |