Five Recent Stories by Tolstoy

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THE DIVINE AND THE HUMAN

The first and second of these stories deal with the Revolution and its victims. Here is a sympathetic account of their sufferings while in prison or en route to the place of exile, with a description of the psychological processes whereby a young revolutionist, condemned to death by hanging, is led to a full and satisfactory understanding of the meaning of Life by reading the Beatitudes. There is an immediate response from within, and Svetlogoub endures the cross, forgives his murderers, and dies with a smile on his face.

Another revolutionist, a materialist, becoming convinced of the stupidity of existence and the hopelessness of the struggle against reaction, commits suicide in his cell, while an old sectarian prisoner dies happily, invoking the Lamb of God.

Here also is the story of a young Pole, who, on being banished to a distant province, tries to escape, but is recaptured, sentenced to receive "a thousand stripes," and finally sent to Siberia for life.