The Origins of Nonviolence: Tolstoy and Gandhi in Their Historical Settings

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This book describes the world-historical forces, acting on the periphery of the modern world in Russia in the 19th century and India in the 20th century which developed the idea of nonviolence in Tolstoy and then in Gandhi. It was from Tolstoy that Gandhi first learned of this idea, but those world-historical forces acted upon and through both men. Tolstoy and Gandhi were at first agents of modern reform, in Russia and India. But then they became...

Format:Library Binding

Language:English

ISBN:0271004142

ISBN13:9780271004143

Release Date:October 1990

Publisher:Penn State University Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

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