... and unresponsive to other Accordingly, if it were not born Sigmund Freud, the theory of the unconscious would create another author about this same era. These views are held by Leo Tolstoy, who in the novel "War and Peace" called great men "slaves of history." So "context", "socio-cultural atmosphere", "intellectual climate", "spirit of the times", and not an individual determines the ... ...

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... Wofford family. As soon as she learned how to read, it became one of her favorite things to do; she read the works of great authors such as Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, and Gustave Flaubert, who all impressed her in different ways. Their talents helped to motivate Morrison to write about the things that she is most familiar with, such as her ... ...

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... 's provisional government in 1917. The dissident movement had a long history of persecutions in Russia starting from Czarist times when great national poets and writers such as Alexander Pushkin, Michael Lermontov, Leo Tolstoy and Fyodr Dostoevsky suffered from censorship which extended to their brilliant works. It also had two major branches: the Westernizers and the Slavophils. The split in Russian society began in ... ...

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