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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... Solzhenitsyn case may help the reader to understand this background.2 LEXANDER ISAYEVICH SOLZHENITSYN was born on 11 A 1918 in well liked by Lermontov ) . His father died in an accident before his birth . When the boy was six years old ...
... Solzhenitsyn joined the army ( on 18 October 1941 ) and served as an artillery officer all the way from Kursk to Konigsberg ( now Kaliningrad ) . He was twice decorated and in 1945 was promoted to a captaincy . What followed was the ...
... Solzhenitsyn made his explosive literary debut with the publication of One Day in November 1962.3 It was not long , however , before the die - hards ' counter - offensive began , and Solzhenitsyn drew the first fire from his critics ...
... 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 ... Solzhenitsyn was facing the greatest honour and SOLZHENITSYN'S NOBEL PRIZE 7.
... Solzhenitsyn , the Soviet press denounced the Swedish Academy as " conservative and reactionary " , pointing out ... Solzhenitsyn from the Ryazan writers ' organization testifies . Of the four Nobel Prizes awarded to Russian writers ...
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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 |