Anarchist Studies |
ABSTRACT: Anarchism had long been publicly reviled in the United States, particularly since the assassination of President McKinley in 1901 by a self-proclaimed anarchist. However, a number of prominent American writers took up the cause of two Italian anarchists who were arrested for robbery and murder in 1927. The behaviour and attitudes of these writers belie the dominant impression, fostered by the New Critics, that American modernism was conservative in its political and social attitudes. Social class and notions of gender and race played a prominent role in how the case was represented by these writers and by the official media.
ABSTRACT: The article discusses Tolstoy's political thought. The first part shows that Tolstoy's later political writings exhibit a marked continuity with his earlier fictional works, and with War and Peace in particular. The second part shows that, while Tolstoy's political thought is essentially simple, it has both the intellectually coherent structure and the visionary quality of better known political theories. The third part clarifies the relation of Tolstoy's theory to anarchist thought.
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