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The 44 pages that link to Leo Tolstoy, each with the reason it gives.

• Russian literatureRelated: His realism became an enduring model of the novel’s social and historical reach.

• Mahatma GandhiRelated: Tolstoy’s writings on nonviolent resistance influenced Gandhi’s developing ethical outlook.

• PacifismRelated: His writings joined pacifism to a radical reading of Jesus’s teachings.

• Anton ChekhovRelated: Tolstoy admired Chekhov’s stories, though their artistic and moral outlooks often differed.

• Russian conquest of the CaucasusRelated: His Caucasian experiences informed works that portrayed imperial violence and frontier life.

• RussificationRelated: His correspondence with authorities exposed tensions between religious dissent and imperial policy.

• The CossacksRelated: Tolstoy transformed firsthand regional experience into the novella’s fiction.

• Sermon on the MountRelated: His reading of Jesus’ commands against resistance influenced modern pacifist thought.

• Caucasian WarRelated: His fiction later gave the conflict a lasting place in Russian literature.

• Ivan TurgenevRelated: Tolstoy and Turgenev were contemporaries whose personal tensions reflected distinct literary temperaments.

• Battle of BorodinoRelated: His fictional account shaped later cultural understandings of the battle.

• Bertha von SuttnerRelated: His correspondence with Suttner reinforced their shared opposition to militarism.

• Isaiah BerlinRelated: Berlin’s essay on Tolstoy made him the central example in the hedgehog-and-fox distinction.

• Ilya RepinRelated: Repin painted Tolstoy repeatedly and valued their sustained personal acquaintance.

• KazanRelated: He studied at Kazan University, an early episode in his education.

• Russian RealismRelated: His fiction’s detailed social worlds parallel realism’s interest in recognizable life.

• SatyagrahaRelated: Tolstoy’s writings influenced Gandhi’s thinking about nonviolent resistance and moral discipline.

• Christian pacifismRelated: His interpretation of Jesus’ teachings influenced modern Christian pacifist thought.

• Christian anarchismRelated: Tolstoy gave modern Christian anarchism a widely influential critique of state violence.

• Russian intelligentsiaRelated: His ethical dissent shows how intelligentsia criticism could extend beyond party politics.

• StendhalRelated: Tolstoy’s treatment of history and individual motives extends questions central to Stendhal’s fiction.

• Viktor ShklovskyRelated: Shklovsky used Tolstoy’s writing to illustrate how estranging description can renew perception.

• Ivan BuninRelated: Tolstoy’s literary stature formed part of the tradition against which Bunin’s generation wrote.

• Russian literary canonRelated: His novels became internationally recognized landmarks of Russian literature.

• Sergei BondarchukRelated: Tolstoy’s novel supplied the characters and historical canvas for Bondarchuk’s best-known film.

• Anarcho-pacifismRelated: His religious anarchism deeply shaped later anarcho-pacifist arguments.

• GroznyRelated: Tolstoy served in the Russian army in the Caucasus and wrote about the region’s conflicts.

• Vasily VereshchaginRelated: Tolstoy’s antiwar thought offers a literary parallel to the moral challenge in Vereshchagin’s war paintings.

• Afanasy FetRelated: Their correspondence records a close bond between two landowning writers.

• Aleksandr I. KuprinRelated: Kuprin’s generation wrote in the literary world transformed by Tolstoy’s realism.

• Aleksey Konstantinovich TolstoyRelated: The two Tolstoys were cousins, though they belonged to different generations and literary careers.

• Anti-statismRelated: Tolstoy grounded anti-statism in Christian ethics and resistance to violence.

• Lev ShestovRelated: Shestov examined Tolstoy’s struggle with mortality and religious certainty.

• Sergei Bodrov Jr.Related: Tolstoy's story supplied the source material for the film that brought Bodrov early acclaim.