Reviews for Warning to the Western World

The average rating for Warning to the Western World based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-10-23 00:00:00 Gary Campbell as i recall, these speeches were initialy delivered before an audience of spoiled whiney lazy rich kids at harvard. solzhenitsyn told told them to stop being so spoiled whiney and lazy, or they'd get eaten alive by the totalitarians. the spoiled whiney lazy kids did not like the speech.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-03-08 00:00:00 John Wilcut Spectacular!! I can't believe that I majored in political science and took many courses from an expert on Russia and never once heard of Mr. Solzhenitsyn. This collection of speeches given in 1975 and 1976 is just as poignant today, if not more so, as it ever was. From an interview in March 1976: "[A]t the moment the question is not how the Soviet Union will find a way out of totalitarianism but how the West will be able to avoid the same fate." And this: "The press does not feel responsibility for its judgments, it makes judgments and attaches labels with the greatest of ease. Mediocre journalists simply make headlines of their conclusions, which suddenly become generally accepted." From a speech on July 9, 1975: "Communism has never concealed the fact that it rejects all absolute concepts of morality. It scoffs at any consideration of "good" and "evil" as indisputable categories. Communism considers morality to be relative, to be a class matter... Communism is anti-humanity." I could go on and on quoting the keen observations of this artist from Soviet Russia, but really, you should just read the book. It is not easy, I am sure, for many Westerners to honestly reflect on these observations, but it is becoming increasingly necessary, if we wish to maintain our civilized society, to ponder the realities of the world, as opposed to the world as we wish it to be.