A Clash of Utopias: Tolstoy and Gorky
Journal: Academic Studies Press eBooks
Year: 2019

Such is the ideal of Christ -the establishment of the kingdom of God on earth, an ideal foretold already by the prophets, that there will come a time when all people will be taught by God, will forge their swords into plowshares and their spears into sickles, the lion will lie down with the lamb, and all beings will be united in love.Tolstoy, Afterword to "The Kreutzer Sonata" Like most nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals, Tolstoy and Gorky were utopians.They looked around them and saw a de