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Warning to the West - by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Paperback)

Warning to the West - by  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Speeches given to the Americans and to the British from June 30, 1975 to March 24, 1976.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Alexander Solzhenitsyn's <i>Warning to the West </i>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. <p/>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 nucelar holocaust are expressed with the moral authority of a great novelist and historian. <p/>Solzhenitsyn mounts a public indictment of the supine inattention of the West that rings like the blows of the hammer with which Luther nailed his manifesto to the doors at Wittenberg.--<i>Times Literary Supplement</i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</b> (1918-2008), winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, was serving the Soviet Army in 1945 when he was arrested and sentenced to eight years in a labor camp, later cut short by Khrushchev's reforms. Although permitted to publish <i>One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich</i>, Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Writers' Union in 1969. The Western publication of his other novels, particularly <i>The Gulag Archipelago</i>, brought retaliation: in 1974, Solzhenitsyn was stripped of his citizenship and forcibly flown to Frankfurt. In 1991, the Soviet government dismissed treason charges against him, and Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994.

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