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[https://wrldrels.org/2025/03/15/tolstoyan-communities/ by Irina Gordeeva 1828 WRSP] | [https://wrldrels.org/2025/03/15/tolstoyan-communities/ by Irina Gordeeva 1828 WRSP] | ||
1880s: Leo Tolstoy wrote Confession, What do I believe?, What Then Must We Do?, and The Kingdom of God is Within You. Their uncensored distribution prompted the appearance of followers of Tolstoy, tolstovtsy (Tolstoyans). | 1880s: Leo Tolstoy wrote Confession, What do I believe?, What Then Must We Do?, and The Kingdom of God is Within You. Their uncensored distribution prompted the appearance of followers of Tolstoy, tolstovtsy (Tolstoyans). | ||
=====Tolstoy’s radical Christianity led him to a pacifistic, anarchistic political philosophy that rejected the state as incompatible with Christ’s teachings.===== | |||
[https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/tolstoys-christian-non-resistance by David S. D’Amato 30/12/15 Libertarianism] | |||
Leo Tolstoy is best known as among history’s greatest novelists, authoring monuments of literary fiction such as War and Peace and Anna Karenina; yet Tolstoy was also a thoughtful and discerning political thinker, sensitive to the plight of the oppressed and offering deep and essentially libertarian criticisms of government power. | |||
