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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... society , the evolution of Marxist thought , ( and especially Revisionism ) , the history of Russian literature , the prospects for international Communism , and the Soviet dissident movement all stand as testaments to the breadth of ...
... society , our system ? " 1 This essay constitutes the introduction to On Trial : The Case of Sinyavsky ( Tertz ) and Daniel ( Arzhak ) . Documents Edited by Leopold Labedz and Max Hayward ( Collins and Harvill , London , Yet the learned ...
... society . The problems he raises the alienation of the individual from society , the contrast between man's technical progress and his spiritual emptiness , the relationship of means to ends , etc. — are those which stand at the heart ...
... society as well as others is not only to contradict the basic teaching of Marxism but also to fly in the face of common sense and of the facts of our everyday experience . Nobody who claims to be a modern writer can afford to close his ...
... society . " In his final plea , he elaborated on this point : " The Public Accuser , the writer Vasiliev , said that he was accusing us , both in the name of the living and in the name of those who fell in the war . ... Their memory is ...
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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 |