Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Russian writers on war
Leonid Andreyev: The Red Laugh
Alexander Blok: The kite, the mother and endless war
1862: Dostoevsky on the new world order
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Holy blood was shed, regular wars sprang up
Rasul Gamzatov: For women war is never over
Vsevolod Garshin: Four Days
Maxim Gorky on Romain Rolland, war and humanism
Maxim Gorky to H.G. Wells: Cleanse from the hearts of children the blood-stained rust of horrible and senseless war
Maxim Gorky: Henri Barbusse and the mass of lies, hypocrisy, cruelty, dirt and blood called war
Maxim Gorky: The true motives of war
Alexander Herzen: War and “international law”
Alexander Kuprin: Deciphering the military metaphysic
Mikhail Lermontov: Still you’re fighting: Why, what for?
Vladimir Mayakovsky: Hurl a question to their faces: Why are we fighting?
Nikolai Nekrasov: In War
Vladimir Odoevsky: City without a name, system with one
Alexei Tolstoy: The one incontestable result was dead bodies
Leo Tolstoy: Selections on war
Leo Tolstoy: The Law of Love and the Law of Violence
Leo Tolstoy: Two Wars and Carthago Delenda Est
Leo Tolstoy: Patriotism or Peace
Leo Tolstoy: “Thou Shalt Not Kill”
Leo Tolstoy: Murder and vengeance are not the will of the people
Leo Tolstoy: The Beginning of the End
Leo Tolstoy: Letter on the Peace Conference
Leo Tolstoy: Christian cannot be a murderer and therefore cannot be a soldier
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