Leo Tolstoy #2 - Professor Andrei Zorin

Professor Andrei Zorin, Professor and chair of Russian at the University of Oxford, and award winning author of Leo Tolstoy, Critical Times, offers his unique deeply researched perspective on the life and times of Leo Tolstoy.

What were the main influences on Tolstoy?
What social positions did Tolstoy advocate?
What made Tolstoy such a historic writer?
How did Tolstoy view Jews and the Jewish people?
Was Tolstoy an anti-Semite?