The Mortal Danger

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Aleksandri. Solzhenitsyn
THE MORTAL DANGER
HOW MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT RUSSIAIMPERIL AMERICA
Second Edition
"Anyone not hopelessly blinded by his own illusions must recog-nize that the West today finds itself in a crisis, perhaps even in mortal danger All of Americas mistakes and misconceptions about Russia might have been purely academie in the past, but not in the swift-moving world of today."
These two sentences epitomize the argument in Aleksandr Sol-zhenitsyns powerful new book. He analyzes in detail the persistent misconceptions of Russian history by American historians, diplomats, and journalists and their confusion of "the Russian people" with the Soviet regime. Solzhenitsyn: is convinced that these misguided views have led to disastrous mistakes in foreign policy from which Americans must rescue themselves.
Few American scholars or statesmen emerge unscathed in Solzhenitsyn s portrait of true Soviet policy and its world-wide in-tent—a version in... Tovább

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CURREN! WORLD AFFAIRS
Aleksandri. Solzhenitsyn
THE MORTAL DANGER
HOW MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT RUSSIAIMPERIL AMERICA
Second Edition
"Anyone not hopelessly blinded by his own illusions must recog-nize that the West today finds itself in a crisis, perhaps even in mortal danger All of Americas mistakes and misconceptions about Russia might have been purely academie in the past, but not in the swift-moving world of today."
These two sentences epitomize the argument in Aleksandr Sol-zhenitsyns powerful new book. He analyzes in detail the persistent misconceptions of Russian history by American historians, diplomats, and journalists and their confusion of "the Russian people" with the Soviet regime. Solzhenitsyn: is convinced that these misguided views have led to disastrous mistakes in foreign policy from which Americans must rescue themselves.
Few American scholars or statesmen emerge unscathed in Solzhenitsyn s portrait of true Soviet policy and its world-wide in-tent—a version in striking contrast to the commonly accepted Western analyses. He counsels against any optimism about détente or the possibility of accommodation amorig the Soviet léad-ership.
The viewpoint of THE MORTAL DANGER is bitter and expjo-sive but it originates iri a mind which has experienced Soviet Russia from the depths of its harsh interior—and has no illusions about its leadership Vissza