The Tolstoy Commons is an online community designed to foster conversations about the Russian author Lev Tolstoy and to serve as a clearinghouse for scholarly activity related to his life and works. We welcome announcements of new books, articles, reviews, and conferences, as well as discussions of new pedagogical approaches to teaching Tolstoy. The Tolstoy Commons is a companion website to the Tolstoy Studies Journal, the peer-reviewed organ of the Tolstoy Society of North America.
Violence and War in Sevastopol Sketches and Cossacks: Reverberations in Contemporary Pop Culture
An upper-level course on the writings of Tolstoy at the University of Kansas recently asked students to reflect on how depictions of violence and war in Sevastopol Sketches and Cossacks relate to more contemporary treatments of war in popular culture.