Warning to the West [J0412]

1976 PB with minor wear. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Warning to the West includes the texts of the Nobel Prize-winning author's three speeches in the United States in the summer of 1975, his first major public addresses since his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974: on June 30 and July 9 to trade-union leaders of the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C., and in New York City, and on July 15 to the United States Congress; and also the texts of his BBC interview and radio speech, which sparked widespread public controversy when they were aired in London in March 1976. Solzhenitsyn's outspoken criticism of the West's growing weakness and complacency and his belief that Russia's growing strength will enable her to establish supremacy over the West without risk of a nuclear holocaust are expressed with the moral authority of a great novelist and historian.

From recent-ish Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "It is difficult to overstate the importance of this book - most of all because the warnings he provides are as relevant today as they were half a century ago."; "Brilliant speeches! Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a great writer and thinker, and his Warning to the West remains as relevant today as it was in 1975. He was ahead of his time."; "A principle of mechanics tells us that, given a long-enough lever, one man can move the entire world. Alexander Solzhenitsyn is a living test of that principle. His lever is his pen, extended far beyond his reach by his mind, his talent, his courage, and his unshakable integrity."