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...grew up in Jain-strong western India, was particularly influenced by Jainism. But in perfecting the strategy that peacefully defeated Britain in India, Gandhi drew heavily on the New Testament, which awakened him to "the Tightness and value of passive resistance." Gandhi's conviction was further bolstered by Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You and Thoreau's famed essay Civil Disobedience, both written by men who made celebrated attempts to carry out nonviolence. What emerged in Gandhi was a hard-boiled idea that sacrificing oneself is ultimately more effective than sacrificing others...
...undoubtedly the greatest masterpiece of fiction by a Swiss writer," which is a little like referring ecstatically to the tallest building in Newark, N.J. In the period in which Gottfried Keller was busy being the greatest Swiss novelist (Der Grüne Heinrich was published in 1854), Tolstoy wrote War and Peace, Melville wrote Moby Dick, and Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights. Still, Keller's book, in its first English translation, has enough literary and historical value to make it worth reading. The novel lacks, and needs, a scholarly introduction, but that is asking a great deal; Grove...
...many-columned courtroom where Powers was brought to trial after 108 days in solitary confinement had seen history made before: in the days when it was still the Noblemen's Club. Pushkin and Tolstoy relaxed there, later the bodies of Lenin and Stalin lay there in state. But Powers seemed unmindful of history, and the faraway cities of which he talked were apparently little more than dots on the map to him. A man who by his testimony belonged to no political party and had never voted. Powers was simply an expert airplane chauffeur describing his trade...
Satirist Ehrenburg also leads his pantaloon pilgrim to some slapstick swipes at Communist literature of the period. Although all he knew about the subject was that "Leo Tolstoy had a handsome beard just like Karl Marx," the little tailor becomes an "inexorable" Marxist literary critic. As pundit of proletarian literature -which is what Ehrenburg himself became after he ended his Paris stay in 1940 and went home-Lasik writes a preface for a socialist realist novel about romance in a soap factory ("Dunja yielded to the beat of new life, and whispered, blushing slightly: 'You see. we have surpassed...
...life under Russian repression and of the disappearance of her husband in the 1937 purges; of heart disease; in Miami, where she had lived incognita the past year in a hotel for the elderly. Her leap followed a previous escape to the New York farm of the anti-Communist Tolstoy Foundation, from which she was kidnaped by the then Soviet consul general, Jacob M. Lomakin, whom the U.S. swiftly expelled-leading to the end of all consular representation between the two nations...