Withen in Ports in 1951, while he was in exie from his nafive Poland, Mice's denunciation of Stalinism outtaged some European intellectuals at a time when they were becoming down to the ideology of Communist Russia. It is now acknowledged as a clossic work against totalitarianism, standing alongside inose of Orwell and Sothenityn

The Captive Mind analyses the power of tyrannical regimes to enslave men and women, not just frough terror, buf through ideas, achieving mastery over the human spirit. Milos's brillanty percepiive and compassionate polemic played a significant liberating icie in Poland, and is championing al intellectual freedom remains relevant and inspiling today.

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Winner of the Nobel Pike in Lierature