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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... wrote to Diderot ( on 26 June 1758 ) : " It is a real pity that we cannot tell the truth in anything touching metaphysics and even history . . . We are compelled to lie , and then we are still persecuted for not having lied enough ...
... wrote that , by staging it , Soviet justice had put itself on trial . The international community of writers showed particular concern over Sinyavsky's and Daniel's fate , and the Secretaries - General of International Pen and of Comes ...
... wrote : " ... [ Tertz's writing can be described as ] the work of a mature writer with sharp insights into the contradictions which disturb and torment modern man — and not only in a socialist society . The problems he raises the ...
... wrote his novels to suit changes in the Party line , and who , after eulogising Stalin , was later on the best of terms with Khrushchev . Sinyavsky , after Khrushchev's speech , expressed the horror felt by his generation for Stalin's ...
... wrote so movingly , a heroic tradition enshrined in the folk - lore of the Russian intelligentsia . The wonderful letters from Mrs Sinyavskaya and Mrs Daniel show that their loyalty , fortitude and steadfastness of character are no less ...
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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 |