Still working to recover. Please don't edit quite yet.
Difference between revisions of "Leo Tolstoy"
From Anarchopedia
m |
|||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| − | '''Leo Tolstoy''' (1828-1910) is best known as the writer of the ''war and peace'' novel, but in the last 30 years of his life preached an anarcho-pacifist Christian of loving one's brother and turning the other cheek. As a Count he was born into the aristocracy, but came to believe that his class were a burden on the back of the poor. he greatly influenced Gandhi with his ideas of non-violent resistance, and it is these ideas rather than his anarchist ideas which have survived as a force in the modern world. | + | '''Leo Tolstoy''' (1828-1910) is best known as the writer of the ''war and peace'' (''Война и мир'') novel, but in the last 30 years of his life preached an anarcho-pacifist Christian of loving one's brother and turning the other cheek. As a Count he was born into the aristocracy, but came to believe that his class were a burden on the back of the poor. he greatly influenced Gandhi with his ideas of non-violent resistance, and it is these ideas rather than his anarchist ideas which have survived as a force in the modern world. |
Revision as of 00:45, 1 July 2005
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known as the writer of the war and peace (Война и мир) novel, but in the last 30 years of his life preached an anarcho-pacifist Christian of loving one's brother and turning the other cheek. As a Count he was born into the aristocracy, but came to believe that his class were a burden on the back of the poor. he greatly influenced Gandhi with his ideas of non-violent resistance, and it is these ideas rather than his anarchist ideas which have survived as a force in the modern world.
