Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
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Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a person.
- Context:
- He influenced Mahatma Gandhi.
- He was influenced by Jesus Christ, Henry David Thoreau.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Novelist, War and Peace (Novel), Anna Karenina (Novel), Civil Disobedience.
References
2013
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy
- Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, Template:IPA-ru; Template:OldStyleDate – Template:OldStyleDate), also known as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Tolstoy was a master of realistic fiction and is widely considered one of the world's greatest novelists. He is best known for two long novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). Tolstoy first achieved literary acclaim in his 20s for his Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based on his experiences in the Crimean War, followed by the publication of a semi-autobiographical trilogy of novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1855-1858). His fiction output also includes two additional novels, dozens of short stories, and several famous novellas, including The Death of Ivan Ilych, Family Happiness, and Hadji Murad. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical personal and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.
His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi[1] and Martin Luther King, Jr.[2]
- Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, Template:IPA-ru; Template:OldStyleDate – Template:OldStyleDate), also known as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Tolstoy was a master of realistic fiction and is widely considered one of the world's greatest novelists. He is best known for two long novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). Tolstoy first achieved literary acclaim in his 20s for his Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based on his experiences in the Crimean War, followed by the publication of a semi-autobiographical trilogy of novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1855-1858). His fiction output also includes two additional novels, dozens of short stories, and several famous novellas, including The Death of Ivan Ilych, Family Happiness, and Hadji Murad. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical personal and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.
- ↑ Martin E. Hellman, Resist Not Evil in World Without Violence (Arun Gandhi ed.), M.K. Gandhi Institute, 1994, retrieved on December 14, 2006
- ↑ King, Jr., Martin Luther; Clayborne Carson, et al (2005). The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume V: Threshold of a New Decade, January 1959 – December 1960. University of California Press. pp. 149, 269, 248. ISBN 0-520-24239-4. http://books.google.com/books?id=TU_HozbJSC8C&pg=PA269.
1884
- (Tolstoy, 1884) ⇒ Leo Tolstoy. (1884). “A Confession."
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- ... WRITINGS ON CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND NONVIOLENCE ...
- QUOTE: ... I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible…except by getting off his back. …