Jan 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
New York Times / www.nytimes.com / January 4, 2011http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/books/04tolstoy.html?_r=1&ref=global-homeFor Tolstoy and Russia, Still No Happy EndingBy Ellen Barry and Sophia KishkovskyMoscow — A couple of months ago one of...
Sep 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
One of the ways to understand Tolstoy’s relationship with the Orthodox Church is in the context of his search for certainty, certainty regarding truth. Tolstoy’s relationship with the Orthodox Church is paradoxical, that is, very Russian, quite Orthodox....
Sep 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
This year I read the ultimate summer read, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. But I’m a slow reader, so I got started in April–But I finished before the end of summer. I read the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The translation is so good...
Sep 25, 2010 | Author - Brad Jersak
As part of the centenary of Lev Tolstoy’s death, I was been asked to reflect on Tolstoy and the Mennonites. Levi Miller wrote a fine article on the Tolstoy-Mennonite connection twelve years ago,[1] reviewing those Mennonite leaders in Russia and America who interacted...
Sep 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
Lev Tolstoy, one of Russia's greatest authors and peace advocates, passed away one century ago. A four-time Nobel nominee, Tolstoy was known through his literature and activism as a proponent of nonviolence and communalism; a critic of militarism and hierarchy;...
