Ne mogu molchat: Stati o vojne, nasilii, ljubvi, bezverii i neprotivlenii zlu. Predislovie Pavla Basinskogo

by Leo Tolstoy

Pered vami sbornik izbrannykh statej velikogo russkogo pisatelja, chej moschnyj golos zvuchal i do sikh por zvuchit na ves mir. Lev Tolstoj vsegda otklikalsja na samye ostrye, bolnye problemy Rossii, ego bezmerno volnovala sudba grazhdan strany. V sbornik voshli tri stati pisatelja, raskryvajuschie ego dar myslitelja i publitsista. "Odumajtes! " - antivoennaja statja. Ona byla napisana posle nachala Russko-japonskoj vojny, vpervye uvidela svet na anglijskom jazyke iz-za tsenzury. V manifeste "Ne mogu molchat" pisatel reshitelno vyskazyvaetsja protiv smertnoj kazni, a v state "Zakon nasilija i zakon ljubvi" osuzhdaet vsjakoe nasilie odnikh ljudej nad drugimi. Rassuzhdaja o vojne i mire, ljubvi i smerti, vere, dolge i svobode voli segodnja, nam ne obojtis bez otsylok k etim jarkim, polemicheskim tekstam. Predislovie k knige napisal Pavel Basinskij - laureat premii "Bolshaja kniga", biograf Lva Tolstogo.

332 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2022

About the author

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.

His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.