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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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