I Cannot Remain Silent. Articles on War, Violence, Love, Faithlessness, and Non-Resistance to Evil. Foreword by Pavel Basinsky.

Before you is a collection of selected articles by the great Russian writer, whose powerful voice has resonated and continues to resonate around the world. Leo Tolstoy always responded to the sharpest, painful issues of Russia; he was deeply concerned about the fate of the country's citizens. The collection includes three articles by the writer that reveal his gift as a thinker and publicist. "Wake Up!" is an anti-war article. It was written after the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War and first appeared in English due to censorship. In the manifesto "I Cannot Remain Silent," the writer firmly speaks out against the death penalty, while in the article "The Law of Violence and the Law of Love," he condemns any violence of one person over another. Discussing war and peace, love and death, faith, duty, and free will today, we cannot avoid references to these vivid, polemical texts. The foreword to the book was written by Pavel Basinsky, a laureate of the "Big Book" prize and a biographer of Leo Tolstoy.