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Tolstoyan, a. and n.|ˈtɒlstɔɪən|
Also Tolstoian.
[f. proper name Tolstoy + -an.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Count Leo N. Tolstoy, a famous Russian writer and social reformer (1828–1910).
B. n. A follower of Tolstoy or his teachings. So ˈTolstoyism, the opinions or teachings of Tolstoy; ˈTolstoyist = Tolstoyan b.
1894Westm. Gaz. 12 Nov. 5/3 An article by a Russian correspondent on the harrying of Tolstoyists by the police in the Southern and Central provinces{ddd}the banishment of a certain Prince Khilkov..a rich landowner who had given up his estates to the poor in his neighbourhood, and was actively engaged in propagating the peculiar tenets known as Tolstoyism. 1898Daily News 6 Oct. 5/4 Anything more distant from the Quaker, or Stundist, or Tolstoian view of military things..it would be difficult to imagine. 1900Westm. Gaz. 22 Mar. 2/2 We are not converted to any Tolstoyan gospel by this book. 1901Daily Chron. 30 May 3/1 Already the Tolstoyans are becoming a sect. 1905Contemp. Rev. May 685 The Tolstoyan gospel of Christian morality apart from faith in the Supernatural.
Add: Tolˈstoyanism n., (adherence to) the principles of non-violent social and moral reform proposed by or associated with Tolstoy.
1909Chesterton Orthodoxy vii. 195 The net result of all our political suggestions, Collectivism, Tolstoyanism, Neo-Feudalism, Communism, Anarchy, Scientific Bureaucracy..is that the Monarchy and the House of Lords will remain. 1972M. Glenny tr. Solzhenitsyn's August 1914 xlii. 424 Varsonofiev mentioned something to do with Tolstoyanism... ‘He's not really much of a Tolstoyan, you know. In his village, for instance, they call him a narodnik.’ 1984M. Scammell Solzhenitsyn (1985) i. 29 Tolstoyanism was an ill-defined philosophico-religious movement inspired by Tolstoy's ideas about nonresistance to violence and the need for a kind of agrarian socialism in Russia. |