Can one part of humanity learn from the bitter experience of another or can it not Is it possible or impossible to warn someone of danger...to assess soberly the worldwide menace that threatens to swallow the whole worldI was swallowed myself. I have been in the dragons belly in its redhot innards. It was unable to digest me and threw me up. I have come to you as a witness to what it is like there in the dragons bellyDuring 1975 and 1976 Nobel Prizewinner 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 worlds one hope against tyranny and totalitarianism.From Solzhenitsyns warnings about the allure of communism to his rebuke that the West should not abandon its ageold concepts of good and evil the speeches collected in Warning to the West provide insight into Solzhenitsyns uncompromising moral vision. Read today their message remains as powerfully urgent as when Solzhenitsyn first delivered them.