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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... writer , although his works are banned there , and he is highly praised by critics and readers all over the world . His books , One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich , The First Circle , and Cancer Ward , have become best - sellers in ...
... writer ( a fate shared by millions of Soviet citizens and hundreds of Soviet writers ) , and of his own ethical fortitude in adversity , a fortitude amounting to heroism . Presenting a documentary record of the Solzhenitsyn case may ...
... writers were naturally the most articulate ) , Khrushchev was also facing the sullen resentment of the apparatchiki who felt their position being undermined by his demolition of the Stalin myth and his other " hare - brained schemes ...
... Writers ' Union to have them published in Russia first . During 1966 and 1967 Solzhenitsyn was subjected to increased pressure : he became the target for a growing slander campaign and his manuscripts and archives were seized by the KGB ...
... writers ' organization testifies . Of the four Nobel Prizes awarded to Russian writers , three are not acknowledged by the Soviet authorities . Pasternak was forced to renounce it ; Solzhenitsyn was denounced for receiving it ; and ...
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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 |