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Category:	Romantic Literature
Name:	Leo Tolstoy
Birth Year:	1828
Death Year:	1910
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Leo Tolstoy SEARCH NOW: by title by author Find your favorite art: barewalls.com Russian novelist and political thinker. September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910. Without naming himself an anarchist, Leo Tolstoy, like his predecessors in the popular religious movements of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Chojecki, Denk and many others, took the anarchist position as regards the state and property rights, deducing his conclusions from the general spirit of the teachings of the Christ and from the necessary dictates of reason. With all the might of his talent he made (especially in The Kingdom of God in Yourselves) a powerful criticism of the church, the state and law altogether, and especially of the present property laws. He describes the state as the domination of the wicked ones, supported by brutal force. Robbers, he says, are far less dangerous than a well-organized government. He makes a searching criticism of the prejudices which are current now concerning the benefits conferred upon men by the church, the state and the existing distribution of property, and from the teachings of the Christ he deduces the rule of non-resistance and the absolute condemnation of all wars. His religious arguments are, however, so well combined with arguments borrowed from a dispassionate observation of the present evils, that the anarchist portions of his works appeal to the religious and the non-religious reader alike. Works Childhood (1852); Boyhood (1854) Youth (1856) Sevastopol Stories (1855-56) The Cossacks (1863) War and Peace (1865-69) Anna Karenina (1875-77) Confession (1882) The Power of Darkness (1888) The Kreutzer Sonata (1889) The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894) What Is Art (1898) Resurrection (1899) [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on Leo Tolstoy.] The Great Books: Leo Tolstoy Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Leo Tolstoy. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Leo Tolstoy. Post Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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