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Article: The New York intellectuals, the rise and decline of the anti-Stalinist left from the 1930s to the 1980s.
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- November 1, 1987
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THE NEW YORK INTELLECTUALS: TWO VIEWS The New York Intellectuals, The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left From the 1930s to the 1980s
by Alan Wald. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. 440 pp. $12.95.
1. by Paul Le Blanc
Long ago, in the 1960s, Conor Cruise O'Brien wrote these perceptive comments about that most ambiguous literary figure George Orwell: "His effect on the English left might be compared to that of Voltaire on the French nobility: he weakened their belief in their own ideology, made them ashamed of their cliches, left them intellectually more scrupulous and more defenceless.' (Writers and ...