Leo Tolstoy: pacifist, patriot, and <i>molodets</i>
Journal: Cambridge University Press eBooks
Year: 2010

What if there were a war and nobody came?Bumper stickers in college towns all over the United States in the 1960s broadcast this slogan, but today, fifty years later, no end to war is in sight.Count Lev (Leo) Nikolaevich Tolstoy, advocate of conscientious war resistance and author of the greatest war fiction in modern times, hated war but understood its role in human life.He fought in two conflicts, the long-running battle against mountain tribes in the Caucasus, and the Crimean War.Born into a