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Alexander Solzhenitsyn speaks to the West by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, , Bodley Head edition, in EnglishAuthor: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn. Solzhenitsyn is a master. Having lived in the hell of Siberia and gulag, he warns the West and the US in particular of the perils of any tyranny. In four separate addresses, collected in this volume, some of which were sponored by George Meany, the AFL-CIO, these addresses are fresh in this day of charges, countercharges, allegations, and lies.5/5(1).  · On Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Warning to the West. Spencer J. Quinn. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. 3, words. And all of us are standing on the brink of a great historical cataclysm, a flood that swallows up civilization and changes whole epochs. –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, BBC speech, Ma. In the summer of , the recently-exiled Reviews: 7.

News on the Record. The commencement speech, I believe, can be considered its own form of a literary micro-genre. In the short stretch of time allotted, it requires the speaker to provide a perspective of interest, often peppered with moments of advice, while mixing in a few points of humor. The speaker also must hold the attention of an. A few years later I stumbled across the speech again at college. By that time I had figured a few things out and was astonished at the spiritual depth of Solzhenitsyn's critique of the West — something I did not comprehend when I was younger. It led me to Orthodox Christianity. I will always admire Alexander Solzhenitsyn for his moral courage. The other Solzhenitsyn. William Harrison. This article is more than 12 years old. Praise his critique of the Soviet system certainly, but remember that it was informed by a deeply reactionary pan.

ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN THE EXHAUSTED WEST The author a/The Gulag Archipelago charges the Western world with losing its courage and spiritual direction. The split in loday's world is perceptible even at a hasty glance. Any of our contemporaries readily identifies two world powers, each of them capable of entirely destroy­ ing the other. “(In the West) the limits of human rights and righteousness are determined by a system of laws; such limits are very broad Any conflict is solved according to the letter of the law and this is considered to be the supreme solution. Solzhenitsyn is a master. Having lived in the hell of Siberia and gulag, he warns the West and the US in particular of the perils of any tyranny. In four separate addresses, collected in this volume, some of which were sponored by George Meany, the AFL-CIO, these addresses are fresh in this day of charges, countercharges, allegations, and lies.