Warning to the West

<p><b><i>&#145;Can one part of humanity learn from the bitter experience of another or can it not? </i></b><br><br><b><i>Is it possible or impossible to warn someone of danger...to assess soberly the worldwide menace that threatens to swallow the whole world?</i></b><br><b><i><br>I was swallowed myself. I have been in the dragon&#146;s belly in its red-hot innards. It was unable to digest me and threw me up. I have come to you as a witness to what it is like there in the dragon&#146;s belly&#146;</i></b><br><br>During 1975 and 1976 Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn embarked on a series of speeches across America and Britain that would shock and scandalise both countries. His message: the West was veering towards moral and spiritual bankruptcy and with it the world&#146;s one hope against tyranny and totalitarianism.<br><br>From Solzhenitsyn&#146;s warnings about the allure of communism to his rebuke that the West should not abandon its age-old concepts of &#145;good&#146; and &#145;evil&#146; the speeches collected in <i>Warning to the West</i> provide insight into Solzhenitsyn&#146;s uncompromising moral vision. Read today their message remains as powerfully urgent as when Solzhenitsyn first delivered them.</p>