... Leo Tolstoy in 1865. The novel describes the war with Napoleon in which many countries were involved such as Russia, Austrian, Prussia, Spain, Sweden, and Britain. The novel mainly focuses on Russia. It reflects the different views and participation in the war of Russian aristocracy and peasants and also shows Tolstoy ... education and power, will do nothing to help win the war. They live like parasites on the body of Russia's society. This is how Tolstoy describes this class in general, but he also depicts two representatives of this upper class, Andrew Bolkonsky and Pierre Bisuhov, who...

• Word Count: 1115
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

War and Peace The famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy wrote War and Peace in 1865. It is a story about the lives of the Russian royal family from 1805 to 1815. This book depicts things ... , Spain, Sweden, and Britain. However, the novel mainly focuses on Russia. It reflects the different views and participation in the war of Russian aristocracy. Showing the war, Tolstoy describes Napoleon's attack on Russia, the battle of Borodino, the slow retrieval of the Russian army, the conquest of Moscow by Napoleon, the fire in Moscow, and the ... despite their high education and power, will do nothing...

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• Grade Level: High School

Leo Tolstoy has established his name as the foremost Russian writer of the nineteenth century. His writings are found to be very interesting and believable. War and Peace, ... and explicit in information. If half of his descriptions and background were taken out, this could be a two-hundred page book, rather than a fourteen-hundred page. Tolstoy achieved this feat through the realistic portrayal of events and people. Many of the situations in the novel are true to life because they are based on certain true ... life experiences of Tolstoy. Tolstoy joined the army in 1851 and later participat...

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• Grade Level: High School

... '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 ... ...

• Word Count: 4394
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate