Tolstoy's Diaries . Writings on Civil Disobedience and Non-violence . For more information, see the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers , 3rd or 4th ed. All required texts have been ordered by the Bookstore. If you can read the texts in Russian, you are welcome and encouraged to do so, but you may still wish to acquire the assigned texts, since many of them contain critical material and notes that will be useful.
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