Warning to the West

<p><strong><em>'Can one part of humanity learn from the bitter experience of another or can it not? </em></strong><br /><br /><strong><em>Is it possible or impossible to warn someone of danger...to assess soberly the worldwide menace that threatens to swallow the whole world?</em></strong><br /><strong><em><br />I was swallowed myself. I have been in the dragon'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's belly'</em></strong><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's one hope against tyranny and totalitarianism.<br /><br />From Solzhenitsyn's warnings about the allure of communism, to his rebuke that the West should not abandon its age-old concepts of 'good' and 'evil', the speeches collected in <em>Warning to the West</em> provide insight into Solzhenitsyn's uncompromising moral vision. Read today, their message remains as powerfully urgent as when Solzhenitsyn first delivered them.</p>