The Captive Mind

Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future.>

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• Authors: Czeslaw Milosz, Czeslaw (Professor Emeritus Milosz, Czesaw Miosz, Jane Zielonko
• Assisted by: Jane Zielonko (Translation), Zielonko Jane (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.06.2001
• EAN: 9780141186764
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118676-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Eastern Europe, European History, Poland, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Poland, Social and cultural history, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, c 1950 to c 1959, c 1940 to c 1949, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship, Marxism & Communism, C 1945 To C 1960