Resurrection

Author: Leo Tolstoy
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Publish Date: 1989-10-01
Features: "Resurrection" is a later work by the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. It exposes and critiques Russian society to an unprecedented level of intensity, dedicating a significant portion of the book to exposing the darkness of the courts, prisons, and government agencies, as well as the incompetence, cruelty, and reactionary nature of officials and the law. Lenin aptly remarked on Tolstoy when evaluating him: Tolstoy "in his later works, fiercely critiqued all modern state systems, religious systems, social systems, and economic systems," achieving a "clarion realism" that "tore off all masks," becoming the "genius artist who created a masterpiece of world literature"; on the other hand, he was a fervent advocate of doctrines like "resisting evil without violence," often labeled a "Tolstoyan," described as "a、" (a、).