The Captive Mind
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The Captive Mind is a seminal 1953 essay collection by Czesław Miłosz that analyzes how intellectuals in Eastern Europe came to accept and rationalize life under Stalinist totalitarianism.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Captive Mind canonical | 1 |
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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essay collection ⓘ |
| analyzes |
impact of ideology on culture
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ways intellectuals justify collaboration ⓘ |
| author | Czesław Miłosz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded | European acclaim as anti-totalitarian classic ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Poland ⓘ |
| criticizes |
Soviet-style communism
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cultural policy under Stalinism ⓘ |
| describes |
mechanisms of ideological control
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psychological adaptation to totalitarianism ⓘ rationalization by intellectuals ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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political essay ⓘ |
| hasEdition | English translation 1953 ⓘ |
| hasForm | collection of essays ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
Cold War intellectual debates
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discourse on dissidence in Eastern Europe ⓘ studies of totalitarianism ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | approximately 240 ⓘ |
| hasPart | essay on Ketman ⓘ |
| hasReception | considered a classic of anti-totalitarian literature ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
compromise and collaboration
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moral responsibility of intellectuals ⓘ relationship between writers and power ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Stalinist policies in Eastern Europe
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author's experience as a diplomat of communist Poland ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Cold War literature ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
Eastern Europe after World War II
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Stalinism NERFINISHED ⓘ ideological conformity ⓘ intellectuals under communism ⓘ totalitarianism ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
Ketman
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captive mind ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Polish ⓘ |
| partOf | 20th-century political literature ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1953-01-01 ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1953 ⓘ |
| publisher | Knopf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Eastern Bloc
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People's Republic of Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed |
early 1950s
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late 1940s ⓘ |
| translatedInto | English ⓘ |
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