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User Review - DanielSTJ - www.librarything.comThis was an excellent work of nonfiction. Milosz describes the state of Eastern Europe, and the ramifications that follow it, in poetic and sublime detail. His observations, hypotheses, and examples ... Read full review
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User Review - br77rino - LibraryThingA nonfiction book in 7 chapters from a Catholic Polish poet who lived in both Hitler's takeover of Poland and Stalin's takeover of Lithuania and Poland. The first two chapters attempt to inhabit the ... Read full review
Contents
The Pill of MurtiBing | 3 |
Looking to the West | 24 |
Ketman | 51 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Captive Mind, Volume 724 Volume 19 of A Vintage book, V19 |
| Author | Czesław Miłosz |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, 1981 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | Apr 10, 2009 |
| Length | 240 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / Eastern Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism |
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