The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz

The Captive Mind

Czeslaw Milosz with Jane Zielonko (Translator)

missing duration info Add in missing duration information first pub 1953 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging reflective slow-paced

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Written in the early 1950s, when Eastern Europe was in the grip of Stalinism and many Western intellectuals placed their hopes in the new order of the East, this classic work reveals in fascinating detail the often beguiling allure of totalitarian...

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