the Russian Futurists 1912 manifesto, A Slap in the Face of Public Taste, argued that past artists such as Pushkin, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy should be "heaved overboard from the steamship of modernity"?
Question 1: His masterpieces War and Peace and ________ represent in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction.
Question 6: In 1904, during the ________, Tolstoy condemned the war and wrote to the Japanese Buddhist priest Soyen Shaku in a failed attempt to make a joint pacifist statement.
Question 8: His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of ________, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist.
Question 9: After reading ________'s The World as Will and Representation, Tolstoy gradually became converted to the ascetic morality upheld in that work as the proper spiritual path for the upper classes:
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