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How Tolstoy’s 'War and Peace' can inspire those who fear Trump’s America

  • Written by Ani Kokobobo, Assistant Professor of Russian Literature, University of Kansas
imageA Soviet-era stamp depicts a scene from Leo Tolstoy's 'War and Peace.'Wikimedia Commons

As a professor of Russian literature, I couldn’t help but notice that comedian Aziz Ansari was inadvertently channeling novelist Leo Tolstoy when he claimed that “change doesn’t come from presidents” but from “large groups of angry...

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