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"The Captive Mind" was translated and published in many countries, becoming itself a historical document.
Bookcases hold a few lonely paperbacks: Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure," Czeslaw Milosz's "Captive Mind".
In his seminal collection of essays, "The Captive Mind," Czeslaw Milosz described the intellectual's relationship to Stalinist totalitarianism: "His chief characteristic is his fear of thinking for himself".
"The Captive Mind" was among a powerful group of books in the early 1950's that condemned Communist ideology and foreshadowed the downfall of Communist power.
In the same year "The Captive Mind" appeared, Mr. Milosz also published "The Seizure of Power," a fictionalized scrutiny of the relationship between Communism and intellectuals.
Czeslaw Milosz, who died in 2004, wrote "The Captive Mind" after leaving Poland in the early 1950s; it describes the internal processes of capitulation to the totalitarian state.
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