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How should Dostoevsky and Tolstoy be read during Russia's war against Ukraine?

  • Written by Ani Kokobobo, Associate Professor of Russian Literature, University of Kansas
How should Dostoevsky and Tolstoy be read during Russia's war against Ukraine?A statue of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy in Moscow.Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images

As someone who teaches Russian literature, I can’t help but process the world through the country’s novels, stories, poems and plays, even at a time when Russian cultural productions are being canceled around the world.

With the Russian army perpetr...

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