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	Tolstoyan
		The tolstoyans were followers of the philosophy of Leo Tolstoy.
		Tolstoyans had problems with the tsarist[?] regime, and even more so with the bolshevik.
		By 1930, Tolstoyans had to relocate to Siberia to avoid being liquidated as kulaks, but Stalin's police nevertheless arrested them and sent all of them to labor camps from 1936 to 1939.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/to/Tolstoyan.html (124 words)

	Tolstoyan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They are nominally Christians, though in a departure from mainstream Christianity, the Tolstoyans tend to focus more on the teachings of Jesus as a spiritually-guided human being rather than as the Son of God.
		Because of their beliefs, the Tolstoyans adhere to either a vegetarian or a vegan diet.
		By 1930, many Tolstoyans had to relocate to Siberia to avoid being liquidated as kulaks, but Stalin's police nevertheless arrested them and sent them to labor camps from 1936 to 1939.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tolstoyan (334 words)

	The Pavlovtsy
		Professing an admixture of Stundist and Tolstoyan beliefs, the peasant sectarians of Pavlovka and neighbouring Rechki, Yastrebennoe and Postolni villages become known as the Pavlovtsy.
		This follows an unsuccessful attempt to banish them in 1894 which failed because the village assembly was not empowered to pass a sentence of banishment on religious grounds.
		Tolstoyans attempting to assist the Pavlovtsy emigrate are threatened with imprisonment.
	www.doukhobor.org /Pavlovtsy.htm (2759 words)

	Russian Spiritual Christianity and Sectarianism in Russia
		Tolstoyanism in the narrow sense of the word -- is an insignificant manifestation and quite incommensurable with the greatness of Tolstoy himself, with the extent of his spiritual thirst and his destiny.
		The sectarian consciousness of the Spiritual Christians, the Tolstoyans, the Dobroliubovians, etc., posits all untruth and all sin only within human life, in the human community and culture, whereas the natural order they regard as beneficent and Divine.
		This absorption with moral trifles, for which some Tolstoyan or sectarian is prepared to undergo great sacrifices, gives rise to an unique sort of Sabbath-keeping, from which it would seem, Christ has forever set man free.
	www.berdyaev.com /berdiaev/berd_lib/1916_252a.html (7641 words)

	H-Net Review: Josh Sanborn on Memoirs of Peasant Tolstoyans in Soviet Russia
		His father a Tolstoyan educator, Mazurin turned early in life to the religious and moral teachings of Leo Tolstoy, and sought to lead a life of rural simplicity and nonviolence in accord with those teachings.
		Indeed, the ambiguous relation of the Tolstoyans to their neighbors and to the state eventually proved to be their undoing, as the wave of local repression associated with the Great Terror washed over the commune.
		Thus the Tolstoyans were in the rather strange position of being extremely well-connected and being marginalized at one and the same time.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=26947846532999 (1998 words)

	Life and Labor Commune - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Life and Labor Commune was a Tolstoyan agricultural commune founded in 1921 and disbanded as a state run collective farm in 1937.
		The commune was built on land in the Tsarítsyn district of the Moscow region and fell under the village soviet of Troparyovo.
		On February 28th, 1930 the All-Russian Central Executive Committee issued a decree by the Presidium of the Committee, Protocol 41, Paragraph 5, about "the resettlement of Tolstoyan communes and cooperatives." After a scouting expedition in the spring of 1930, the location of Kuznetsk along the Tom River was chosen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Life_and_Labor_Commune (406 words)

	Life in an Austro-Hungarian Military Prison: The Slovak Tolstoyan Dr. Albert Skarvan's Story/The Night of the ...
		Life in an Austro-Hungarian Military Prison: The Slovak Tolstoyan Dr. Albert Skarvan's Story/The Night of the Barbarians: Memoirs of the Communist Persecution of the Slovak Cardinal
		Not surprisingly, he concluded that a prisoner "is not considered to be a human being" (p.
		Brock added that Skarvan's memoirs are an important reflection of early twentieth-century Slovak literature and they "reveal the mindset of...a Slovak cultural nationalist and Tolstoyan antimilitarist" (p.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3763/is_200403/ai_n9363946 (1147 words)

	Adela and Albert: A Tolstoyan Love Story Canadian Slavonic Papers - Find Articles
		Though he played no part in political life, he was an enthusiastic cultural nationalist and an advocate of the use of the Slovak vernacular for literature.
		His Memoirs of an Army Doctor (1920), republished in 1992, reveal the mindset of a Tolstoyan antimilitarist.
		The significance of Slovak Tolstoyism lies in its providing the only example of the fusion of Tolstoyan nonviolence with nationalism of the cultural-linguistic variety.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3763/is_200309/ai_n9281423 (785 words)

	George Walford - Whiteway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joy Thacker, author of Whiteway Colony, the social history of a Tolstoyan community, has lived in the Colony since her marriage, devoting eighteen of the past twenty-five years to renovating a one-bedroomed chalet and transforming it into a spacious family home.
		She does not see people relaxing into the freedom of socialism or Tolstoyan anarchism; they rather find it a burden: 'Although people streamed here, to find this freedom that they all craved.
		The labourers even outside Whiteway seem to have made quite a bit of progress, and they have done it by using hi-tech capitalism, influenced by Tolstoy and his theories, Whiteway, the Brotherhood Trust, the trade unions and the socialist movement.
	www.gwiep.net /period/ic166305.htm (1295 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Rx for the Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		...For the most part, John Gardner's point of view on art is Tolstoyan-the Tolstoy, chiefly, of the essays on Guy de Maupassant, S. 57 Seminov, and "On Art," and of the book What is Art...
		...An additional burden is Tolstoyan prudery, which could be extreme...
		...Gardner rings a few changes on this Tolstoyan notion of the transfer of feeling from artist to audience...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V66I1P59-1.htm (3605 words)

	Tolstoy as the Mirror of the Russian Revolution
		Tolstoy is absurd as a prophet who has discovered new nostrums for the salvation of mankind -- and therefore the foreign and Russian "Tolstoyans" who have sought to convert the weakest side of his doctrine into a dogma, are not worth speaking of.
		Historical and economic conditions explain both the inevitable beginning of the revolutionary struggle of the masses and their unpreparedness for the struggle, their Tolstoyan non-resistance to evil, which was a most serious cause of the defeat of the first revolutionary campaign.
		The development of capitalism is hourly changing and intensifying the conditions which roused the millions of peasants -- united by their hatred for the feudalist landlords and their government -- for the revolutionary democratic struggle.
	marx2mao.phpwebhosting.com /Lenin/TMRR08.html (1263 words)

	nabokov's poetics of vision
		In epistemological terms this anxiety over enclosure within a box represents the undermining of the Tolstoyan conviction that, barring willful blindness (Anna is always squinting), the eye can see the world clearly and directly ascertain its truth.
		Kretschmar is not a solitary, privileged viewer in the cinema, since, as he should well have noticed, it is named after “Argus,” in Greek myth the hundred-eyed guardian of Io.
		Or the following example, which brings the Tolstoyan borrowing around full circle to deposit it, once again, in a train: at one point in “Vesna v Fial'te” ("Spring in Fialta," 1938) the narrator (Viktor) is seeing off his peripatetic love (Nina) at a Vienna railway station.
	www.libraries.psu.edu /nabokov/seifrid3.htm (817 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the stories in Survivors, Rosenfarb studies the afterlife of the tiny demographic subset of European Jews who survived Hitler; and observes that while most are successful in building new lives for themselves on new continents, they can never be liberated psychologically from the indelible horrors they have experienced.
		Rosenfarb is an expert storyteller with a classical, almost Tolstoyan touch, as evidenced even in the opening piece, The Greenhorn.
		An engaging sketch, it highlights the ironic differences between the idyllic romantic vision many Canadians may have harboured of Europe versus the tortuous realities that continued to burn in survivors’ memories after the war.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=4335 (879 words)

	innovation-Why use storytelling for innovation-Tolstoyan view of innovation & storytelling-How storytelling innovates
		Innovation — what Freeman Dyson calls the creative chaos and freedom of the Tolstoyan approach — swims in the richness and complexity of living.
		As participants, we can grasp the inter-relatedness of things in the world — and so are able to connect them in new ways — much more readily than when we are seeing them as an external observer through the window of rigid analytic propositions.
		Storytelling provides direct access to richness and complexity of the Tolstoyan world, When I saw how easily round-edged stories could slide into our minds, I found myself wondering whether our brains might not be hard-wired to absorb stories.
	www.stevedenning.com /storytelling_innovation.html (553 words)

	AFTER BROTHERHOOD'S GOLDEN AGE:
		By the end of the 1920s, Karl and Michael had moved from freethinking atheism to Tolstoyan Christianity based on the view that individual self-completion could be the impetus for social change.
		Thus the two brothers may now be seen to be oriented in somewhat opposing directions, departing from their former common commitment to Tolstoyan Christianity.
		From their former common ground of Tolstoyan religiosity, Karl had moved towards a community-oriented Christian sociology which led him to celebrate the Russian experiment as the sole embodiment of socialism, while Michael rejected it and went on to construct a social theory based upon a theory of knowledge and a free society.
	www.kfki.hu /(hu)/~cheminfo/polanyi/9601/after2.html (6189 words)

	Leon Trotsky: Our Political Tasks (Jacobinism and Social Democracy)
		It goes without saying that one who is linked to the proletariat which has become conscious of its class interests is a social democrat.
		For once the Jacobin, Tolstoyan or whatever link their fate to the ‘organisation of the proletariat now conscious of its class interests,’ they cease to be Jacobins, Tolstoyans, Mennonites etc., and become revolutionary Social Democrats.
		In the struggle between the revolutionary and opportunistic wings of international socialism, they analogy of the struggle between the Montagne and the Gironde has often been used.
	www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/works/1904/1904-pt/ch05.htm (2692 words)

	Imagined Worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ideological technologies are often characterized by (a) designed by political committee; (b) artificially not allowed to fail even when they have technologically failed.
		Contrast "Napoleonic" (rigid, organized, big-project, big-management) vs. "Tolstoyan" (small, nimble, creative chaos, anarchic) approach to science.
		Some sciences are now coming full circle, having started Tolstoyan, been "established" as Napoleonic, and reverting to Tolstoyan in the face of uncertain funding or bad public opinion influencing politicians:
	swig.stanford.edu /pub/summaries/books/imgworld.html (871 words)

	Feast of the Spirit
		In true post-modern fashion, the Georgian-born poet is represented by her original English verse and two ingenious translators into Russian, one of them her father.
		In its inquisitive awareness of forces and processes outside the self, its pattern-searching informed by a Tolstoyan philosophy of time and amplified by the enormity of Georgia's natural sights and vast openness, Djin's verse is knit of genuinely poetic material.
		Djin considers language circumstantial and an imperfect tool which translates the multiple mutations of the spirit.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2000/04/29/106-print.html (619 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Whereas Salman Rushdie's celebrated "Midnight's Children" gave us Bombay with a headlong, fantastic, word-twirling magic realism, Rohinton Mistry, a Bombay-born Canadian, presents the same diverse, congested metropolis with a realism that, if too wry to be called sober, might be termed Tolstoyan.
		In a polished but economical and unobtrusive prose, he writes of household dramas, of plausibly confined, earthbound lives seeking to generate on their own a spark of relieving magic.
		"Family Matters" has a nervous pulse; its Tolstoyan qualities, its ease and affection, are vitiated by a modernist jumpiness.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/books/?020930crbo_books1 (1800 words)

	tolstoyan - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We found 3 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word tolstoyan:
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		Tolstoyan : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
	onelook.com /?w=tolstoyan (89 words)

	nabokov's poetics of vision
		But whereas Nabokov's visualism is often thought of as either peculiar to his form of “genius” or a reflection of the esoteric modernist culture that surrounded him in the Russia of his youth, the Tolstoyan link suggests that at least some of this phenomenon may derive from a rather unexpected nineteenth-century predecessor.
		Like Anna, Kretschmar further supplants the film episodes with shadow-imagery drawn from his own life: his budding fantasies about Magda, sparked by his belief that she looks like an Old Master portrait, just as Anna thinks of Vronsky as the hero of a novel.
		Both Anna and Kretschmar, however, are only fooling themselves as they rush headlong into a moral trap, and for all the differences between the two authors Nabokov's indictment of cinema as cheap deceit is on the whole carried out in a very Tolstoyan spirit.
	www.libraries.psu.edu /nabokov/seifrid2.htm (813 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher
		With Tolstoyan sweep and Dickensian vitality, this epically involving historical novel relates England’s tragic adventure in Afghanistan, which began with the triumphant arrival of the Army of the Indus in 1839 and ended three years later in rout and massacre.
		At the center of The Mulberry Empire is Alexander Burnes, a Scots explorer who travels to the unfathomably remote kingdom of Afghanistan and first befriends and then reluctantly betrays its wise and impeccably courteous Amir.
		“Hensher depicts with Tolstoyan brio the terrifying chaos and dizzy unpredictability of war [and] reaffirms our confidence in the novel to shock, to challenge and, most usefully, to stir political change.” –St.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400030897 (540 words)

	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Scenes From a Marriage Of Tolstoyan Complexity - New York Times
		BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Scenes From a Marriage Of Tolstoyan Complexity - New York Times
		BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Scenes From a Marriage Of Tolstoyan Complexity
		She, in turn, resented her husband for trying to impose his spiritual ideals on her and their children, and as he began paying more and more attention to his friend Chertkov, she grew increasingly jealous and possessive.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE4DC173FF93BA35754C0A962958260 (608 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| BIRDSONG by Sebastian Faulks
		The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading and discussion of Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong.
		We hope they will enrich your understanding of this overpowering and harrowing novel, a Tolstoyan epic of love, war, and redemption.
		In 1910 a young Englishman, Stephen Wraysford, goes to Picardy, France, to learn the textile business.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/birdsong.asp (1124 words)

	BOOKFORUM \| Dec/Jan 2006
		A Suitable Boy, the book that made Vikram Seth famous, is a grand, 1,349-page novel of newly independent India, religious intolerance, four families drawn into a quest for a proper marriage, and love's imperative.
		Upon its publication, Seth was declared Tolstoyan by many critics, but in conversation he conceals his gravitas behind an impish wit.
		At once quick and thoughtful, deadpan funny and reflectively poetic, Seth approached the perhaps dreaded author interview with enthusiastic focus.
	www.bookforum.com /archive/dec_05/seth.html (2913 words)

	James Allen Home Page (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Like Tolstoy, Allen sought to improve himself, be happy, and master all of the virtues.
		His search for felicity for man on earth was typically Tolstoyan.
		His day in Ilfracombe began with a predawn walk up to the Cairn, a stony spot on the hillside overlooking his home and the sea.
	jamesallen.wwwhubs.com.cob-web.org:8888 (1367 words)

	OUP: Vivien Noakes on The Poems and Plays of Isaac Rosenberg
		When Isaac Rosenberg was killed on 1 April 1918, one of the most distinctive and original voices of twentieth century English poetry was silenced.
		Rosenberg, who was born in Bristol in 1890, was the oldest son of a Lithuanian refugee, a Tolstoyan pacifist who had come to England to escape conscription into the Russian army.
		When he was seven, the family moved to Stepney, becoming part of the impoverished but intellectually exciting East End community of Jewish immigrants.
	www.oup.co.uk /academic/humanities/literature/viewpoint/Vivien_Noakes (790 words)

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