The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz

The Captive Mind

Czesław Miłosz

272 pages missing pub info (editions) user-added

nonfiction essays politics 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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