Russian writers on war
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Russian writers on war
Leonid Andreyev: The Red Laugh
Alexander Blok: The kite, the mother and endless war
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Selections on war
Fyodor Dostoevsky: The abysmal cunning of war
Fyodor Dostoevsky: The desire to rule mankind as slaves leads West to colossal, final war
1862: Dostoevsky on the new world order
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Holocaustal weapons of future wars
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Holy blood was shed, regular wars sprang up
Konstantin Fedin: Is there anyone who doesn’t want this war to be the last one on earth?
Rasul Gamzatov: For women war is never over
Nikolai Gogol: The dove not seeing the hawk. War in the Ukraine
Maxim Gorky: Selections on war
Maxim Gorky on Romain Rolland, war and humanism
Maxim Gorky: The fatal consequences of ignoring military protocol
Maxim Gorky: Generals and substitutes for monkeys
Maxim Gorky: Henri Barbusse and the mass of lies, hypocrisy, cruelty, dirt and blood called war
Maxim Gorky: Military museum; soaking the dirt and dust of the earth with copious blood
Maxim Gorky: Military Tower of Babel
Maxim Gorky: Only time to train cannon fodder, not soldiers
Maxim Gorky: Perfidious Albion at war
Maxim Gorky: “That’s what war is for – to seize foreign land or depopulate one’s own”
Maxim Gorky: The true motives of war
Maxim Gorky: War and Civilization
Maxim Gorky: War, cunning in its stupidity
Maxim Gorky: War permits destruction of every kind: losing limbs fighting for our country
Maxim Gorky: What in war is honorable, in peacetime is criminal
Maxim Gorky: What we needed was a successful war – with anybody at all
Maxim Gorky: When “cause of freedom for man” means money for armaments
Maxim Gorky: With arming of vast hordes of people, what can I get out of the war?
Maxim Gorky: World war and racial conflict on an obscure, infinitesimal planet
Alexander Herzen: Selections on the military and war
Alexander Herzen: As soon as a boy can walk, he is given a toy sword to train him to murder
Alexander Herzen: Barracks, the most inhuman condition in which men live. An exhibition of generals.
Alexander Herzen: Blood replaced by tears, the field of battle by forgotten tombs
Alexander Herzen: Chthonic passions, heathen patriotism fuel war
Alexander Herzen: Despotism means military discipline, empires mean war
Alexander Herzen: The frenzied anxiety, the exhausted satiety that lead to war
Alexander Herzen: Inhumanity of army discipline, flunky of a crowned soldier
Alexander Herzen: Middle class idyll impossible with half a million bayonets clamoring for “work”
Alexander Herzen: War and “international law”
Alexander Herzen: War, duel between nations; duel, war between individuals
Alexander Herzen: What the military calls work
Alexander Kuprin: Selections on war
Alexander Kuprin: Deciphering the military metaphysic
Alexander Kuprin: The human race has had its childhood – a time of incessant and bloody war
Alexander Kuprin: Mounds and mountains of corpses under which moan the dying
Leonid Leonov: All the blood that has been shed has turned the air bad
Leonid Leonov: Tell me, is it right to kill – in war or anyhow?
Mikhail Lermontov: Still you’re fighting: Why, what for?
Vladimir Mayakovsky: Hurl a question to their faces: Why are we fighting?
Dmitry Merezhkovsky : His God is not at all the God of the Christians, but the ancient, pagan Mars
Vladimir Odoevsky: City without a name, system with one
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin: The grandeur, the selflessness of war
Mikhail Sholokhov: Selections on war
Mikhail Sholokhov: His entire face a cry, screaming without opening his lips
Mikhail Sholokhov: People worse than wolves. And it was called a heroic exploit.
Mikhail Sholokhov: Visit to a military hospital
Mikhail Sholokhov: War’s bitter harvest
Mikhail Sholokhov: Who was he calling for in his hour of death?
Alexei Tolstoy: The one incontestable result was dead bodies
Leo Tolstoy: Selections on war
Leo Tolstoy: The Law of Love and the Law of Violence
Leo Tolstoy: Two Wars and Carthago Delenda Est
Leo Tolstoy: Patriotism or Peace
Leo Tolstoy: “Thou Shalt Not Kill”
Leo Tolstoy: Murder and vengeance are not the will of the people
Leo Tolstoy: The Beginning of the End
Leo Tolstoy: Letter on the Peace Conference
Leo Tolstoy: Christian cannot be a murderer and therefore cannot be a soldier
Leo Tolstoy: Idealization of military malefactors is shameful
