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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... sense of how both German National - Socialism and Soviet Communism were manifestations of the same tragic phenomenon of totalitarianism . Leo did not allow these wrenching personal experiences to cloud his academic judgement . Instead ...
... sense ; with its complexity and sense of tragedy , it is the antithesis of the shallow optimism and vulgar sociologism which , under the sign of " socialist realism " , has for so many years dominated Soviet prose writing . One of the ...
... sense of reality . Those who knew that " the Emperor has no clothes " had better not only keep quiet , but repress the knowledge into their subconscious . In literature the officially inspired fantasy was implemented by means of the ...
... heart of modern culture . They make up the inner sense of the work of Kafka and Joyce , Faulkner and Hemingway , Boll and Steinbeck , Babel and Pasternak .... These problems are imposed on modern man by 20 SINYAVSKY & DANIEL.
... sense and of the facts of our everyday experience . Nobody who claims to be a modern writer can afford to close his eyes to them ... ' The writer cannot be required merely to preach the official catechism , he has the duty to navigate ...
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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 |