Talk:Leo Tolstoy

Semi-protected edit request on 25 March 2023

There's no mention of his autobiographical work: Confession.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confession# PaUZz LYte (talk) 22:42, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Confession inspired people like Ghandi thus Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. PaUZz LYte (talk) 22:44, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 00:12, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 March 2023

I would love to add a small portion about his autobiography, Confession:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confession

As well as The Kingdom of God Is Within You:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingdom_of_God_Is_Within_You

Directly under this paragraph here under Novels and Fictional Works:

"After Anna Karenina, Tolstoy concentrated on Christian themes, and his later novels such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) and What Is to Be Done? develop a radical anarcho-pacifist Christian philosophy which led to his excommunication from the Russian Orthodox Church in 1901.[40] For all the praise showered on Anna Karenina and War and Peace, Tolstoy rejected the two works later in his life as something not as true of reality.[41]"

The small portion could simply read: "He also wrote Confession, a short autobiographical like, as well as The Kingdom of God Is Within You. Both of which are credited to have inspired people like Mahtma Gandhi (thus MLK as well)(this doesn't need to be included but i think it should be.) to do what he did. Proof of this is within Gandhi's autobiography here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_My_Experiments_with_Truth PaUZz LYte (talk) 01:44, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Wikipedia is not considered a reliable source as a citation. Lightoil (talk) 06:03, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Under: Initial Phase: Gandhi studies Tolstoy (1893 – 1909)

It mentions Confession at the bottom of that section, incorrectly referring to it as THE Confession as proven by Peter Carson's translation of it that includes The Death of Ivan Ilyich as a two books in one kind of thing, it's just: Confession.

http://www.asthabharati.org/Dia_Oct%20010/y.p..htm1909)

Here is further proof of their relationship:

https://medium.com/illuminations-mirror/how-leo-tolstoy-influenced-mahatma-gandhi-c006ff5b63dd PaUZz LYte (talk) 15:16, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

I meant to say it incorrectly says: My Confessions. PaUZz LYte (talk) 17:52, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

I'm sorry just wanted to add that Peter Carsons translation was in 2015. PaUZz LYte (talk) 19:12, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

I also own and can confirm that I do, Confession, experiments with truth and MLK's autobiography. PaUZz LYte (talk) 18:37, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 May 2023

In the infobox on Tolstoy, under the category "Subjects", change "pacifism" to "Pacifism" and give a corresponding link to the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifism Nullstar58 (talk) 10:59, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

Done.Sbishop (talk) 11:24, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

Nobel Prize "Controversies"

It seems clear that Tolstoy would be nominated for the Literature Prize - not so much for "Peace".

It would be an improvement to shed light on his Peace Prize nominations - why was he so-nominated?

Also, to lump all the nominations together - insofar as not winning any of them - is puzzling - as if the prizes for Peace and Literature are somehow identical. Jsusky (talk) 20:40, 5 June 2023 (UTC)