Leo Tolstoy
1828 – 1910 · Russia · Literature, Philosophy
War and Peace; his nonviolence doctrine directly shaped Gandhi.
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Who shaped Leo Tolstoy, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- Victor Hugo
1802 – 1885 · Literature
Tolstoy called Les Misérables the greatest novel; War and Peace answers its scale.
Passed the work to2
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
1821 – 1881 · Literature, Philosophy
Their opposed answers to faith and freedom define the Russian novel.
- Mahatma Gandhi
1869 – 1948 · Peace, Philosophy
Their correspondence and The Kingdom of God Is Within You shaped satyagraha.
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