| #6885748 in Books | McKeogh Colm | 2009-09-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.69 x5.98l,1.18 | File Name: 1604976349 | 250 pages | Tolstoy s Pacifism
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Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was the most influential, challenging, and provocative pacifist of his generation. The most famous person alive at the dawn of the twentieth century, his international stature came not only from his great novels but from his rejection of violence and the state. Tolstoy was a strict pacifist in the last three decades of his life, and wrote at length on a central issue of politics, namely, the use of violence to maintain order, to promote justice, ...
