Articles by Ani Kokobobo
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How Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ Can Inspire Those Who Fear Trump’s America
Ani Kokobobo | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
31 Jan 2017 – As a professor of Russian literature, I couldn’t help but notice that comedian Aziz Ansari was inadvertently channeling novelist Leo Tolstoy when he claimed that “change doesn’t come from presidents” but from “large groups of angry people.” In one of his greatest novels, “War and Peace” (1869), Tolstoy insists that history is propelled forward not by the actions of individual leaders but by the random alignment of events and communities of people.
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