Translated ot Arabic, 'Zniewolony umysł' ('The Captive Mind', 1953), by the Lithuanian writer, poet and Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004). 'Written in the early 1950s, when Eastern Europe was in the grip of Stalinism and many Western intellectuals placed their hopes in the new order of the East, this classic work reveals the often beguiling allure of totalitarian rule to people of all political beliefs and its effects on the minds of those who embrace it.' (Description from English Edition)