Warning to the west

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.

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 'Warning to the West' provide insight into Solzhenitsyn's uncompromising moral vision.

Read today, their message remains as powerfully urgent as when Solzhenitsyn first delivered them.