Ne mogu molchat': Stat'i o vojne, nasilii, lyubvi, bezverii i neprotivlenii zlu. Predislovie Pavla Basinskogo

Before you is an audio collection of selected articles of the great Russian writer, whose powerful voice sounded and still sounds to the whole world. Leo Tolstoy has always responded to the most acute, painful problems of Russia, he cared immensely about the fate of its citizens. This collection includes three articles by the writer, revealing his gift as a thinker and publicist. "Come to your senses!" - is an anti-war article. It was written after the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, first seen in English due to censorship. In the manifesto "I cannot be silent" the writer strongly opposes the death penalty, and in the article "The law of violence and the law of love" he condemns all violence of some people against others. Discussing war and peace, love and death, faith, duty and free will today, we can not do without references to these vivid, polemical texts. Foreword to the book written by Pavel Basinsky - winner of the "Big Book", the biographer of Leo Tolstoy.