Life in a Penal Battalion of the Imperial Russian Army: the Tolstoyan N. T. Iziumchenko's Story
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- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: William Sessions Limited
- Publish date: 01/01/2001
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Published here for the first time in English, this document provides a unique account by a young peasant conscript in the Imperial Russian army -- and follower of the pacifist teaching of the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy -- who was sentenced to serve two years in a penal battalion as a result of his refusal to bear arms.
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N. T. Iziumchenko's narrative points to an alternative tradition of non-violent protest against injustice and commitment to universal values. It shows that in Russia such sentiments were by no means confined to the westernized intelligentsia but had authentic popular roots.
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