Letter to the Soviet Leaders

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Hilary Sternberg (Translator)

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Author
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Hilary Sternberg (Translator)
Publish Date
1974-05-01
Book Type
Hardcover
Publisher Name
Harper & Row
Number of Pages
59
Edition
First Edition
ISBN-10
0060139137
ISBN-13
9780060139131
SKU
9780060139131

Description

"In 1973, near the height of the Sino-Soviet conflict, Solzhenitsyn sent a Letter to the Soviet Leaders to a limited number of upper echelon Soviet officials. This work, which was published for the general public in the Western world a year after it was sent to its intended audience, beseeched the Soviet Union's authorities to Give them their ideology! Let the Chinese leaders glory in it for a while. And for that matter, let them shoulder the whole sackful of unfulfillable international obligations, let them grunt and heave and instruct humanity, and foot all the bills for their absurd economics (a million a day just to Cuba), and let them support terrorists and guerrillas in the Southern Hemisphere too if they like. The main source of the savage feuding between us will then melt away, a great many points of today's contention and conflict all over the world will also melt away, and a military clash will become a much remoter possibility and perhaps won't take place at all [author's emphasis]."--Wikipedia.