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Part I. One of the most distinctive characteristics of Tolstoy, both in his actual life and in his literary fictions, was his absolutism. As we know from his wife’s diaries, whenever Tolstoy embraced a passion, whether it was beekeeping, war, agriculture, philosophy, politics, or writing, he embraced it totally; and when he grew disinterested inContinue reading “Tolstoy’s Absolutism: Strength or Weakness?”