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A 12 page paper which examines how the famed author influenced his Russian homeland through his writings and actions. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back" (Anarchists Quotations). This sums up, in a single sentence, Leo Tolstoys political philosophy.
Although Tolstoy (1828-1910) ranks among the two most influential Russian authors of all time (the other being Fyodor Dostoevsky), it is his radical political ideas for which he would
prefer to be remembered. Today, Tolstoy is credited with being the founder of the contemporary peace movement, which employs the concept of civil disobedience or government resistance through the
practice of nonviolence (Wilcock). Although Tolstoys family were titled aristocrats (his official title was Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy) and lived on a lavish estate, Yasnaya Polyana, near the town
of Tula, his heart and soul belonged to the Russian peasantry. He blamed that the tsarist regime for peasant oppression, and after having written numerous short stories and two
epic novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1876), Tolstoy began concentrating on combining his deep spirituality with his radical political beliefs.
Strongly influenced by Western writers such as British novelist and social activist Charles Dickens, U.S. abolitionist and newspaper publisher William Lloyd Garrison, and the American religious sect Society of Friends
(Quakers), Tolstoy espoused nonviolence and strongly lobbied for the dissolution of the Russian military and complete weapons disarmament. According to Tolstoy, the military was little more than legalized government
brainwashing that rendered people incapable of thinking for themselves. As his commitment to Christianity grew, so did Tolstoys distrust of the government, which he contended legitimized its authority through
violence under various guises such as nationalism (protection of the countrys interests and territorial threats) and religion (justifying warfare on religious grounds). There were several other Russian dissident groups
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