TOLSTOY’S CRITICISM OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY
Keywords:
social inequality, rural, urban, poor, labor, peasants, workers, slaveryAbstract
Leo Tolstoy was not only a significant world-writer, but also an educator, a moral thinker and social reformer, who strongly denied civilization, the foundations of the state and society. Although he was a member of the highest aristocracy in Russia by birth and upbringing, he left that way of life and in his work gave a sharp critique of the entire system, which was based on the enslavement of the common people, especially the peasants. This paper points to Tolstoy's views and him as a social and moral reformer. In his works: "So what do we do?" (1886), "The Hunger" (1891) and "Slavery in our time" (1899), Tolstoy reveals uncompromising social contradictions, the harsh conditions in which peasantry, the working class and most of the people lived, reveals fake and defective lifes of people from the upper class and invites people of his class to change their attitude towards people. Criticizing society, especially social inequalities as most visible indicator of an unhealthy societal state, he emphasizes particularly ethical stance. The gap between the rich and the poor people, he presents primarily as the moral problem of the rich.
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