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THE JOURNAL OF
LEO TOLSTOI
(FirstVolume—1895–1899)
THE NEWEST BORZOI BOOKS
ASPHALT
BACKWATER
DANDELIONS
CENTRAL EUROPE
CRIMES OF CHARITY
RUSSIA’S MESSAGE
THE BOOK OF SELF
THE BOOK OF CAMPING
MODERN RUSSIAN HISTORY
THE RUSSIAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SUPER-TRAMP
TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN
By ROSE STRUNSKY
ALFRED A. KNOPF
NEW YORK · MCMXVII
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The ultimate meaning of the Russian Revolution which took placein March, 1917, can be best understood through the pages of theJournal of Leo Tolstoi which is here printed. The spiritual qualitieswhich make up the mind and personality of Tolstoi are the spiritualqualities which make up the new era among men which is being wagedso painfully and so uncompromisingly at the present moment on thesoil of Russia. One holds the key to the other, for no land butRussia could have produced a Tolstoi, and in no land but Russiacould Tolstoi have b