| has gloss | eng: The Captive Mind is a 1953 work of nonfiction by Polish writer and academic Czesław Miłosz, translated into English by Jane Zielonko and originally published by Secker and Warburg. The book was written immediately after the author received political asylum in Paris following his break with Poland's Communist government. It draws upon his experiences as an underground writer during World War II and position within the political and cultural elite of Poland in the immediate post-war years, attempting to explain both the intellectual allure of Stalinism and the temptation of collaboration with Stalinist regimes among intellectuals in post-war Central and Eastern Europe. Miłosz describes the book as having been written "under great inner conflict". |