• ISBN13: 9781438533995
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Education & Psychology
• Publisher: Book Jungle
• Publisher Imprint: Book Jungle
• Publication Date: January 1, 2009
• Pages: 210
• Original Price: USD 15.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 368 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Educational Policy & Reform / General and Sociology / General

Leo Tolstoy had a profound influence on people through out the Western world. Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher. Tolstoy was a member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. He was known as an educational reformer, pacifist and Christian anarchist. His masterpiece War and Peace made him one of the world's greatest novelists. His ability to depict life in 19th century Russia made him a leader in realist fiction. Tolstoy's stand on nonviolent resistance influenced twentieth century people such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Ghandi. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894). What To Do thoughts evoked by the census of Moscow was written in 1887.