I came across an author last night describing how Gandhi was influenced by, and then adapted, the ideas of Russian author Leo Tolstoy (better known for his works War & Peace and Anna Karenina) in his commitment to nonviolence. Gandhi and Tolstoy apparently wrote to one another. Gandhi went on not only to lead the Quit India movement protesting British imperialism, but in turn influenced Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela. Nonviolence as an unbroken chain. See http://www.las.illinois.edu/alumni/magazine/articles/2009/tolstoy/ John Green has a video on the global nature of the non-violence movement (linked below). Interesting to juxtapose these ideas against those of the Jacobins and Girondins, isn't it?
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