Leo Tolstoy

to speak about this change and to promote a specific vision — a vision of a free, stable and united Caucasus. From the times of Pushkin, Lermontov or Tolstoy to the present day, the Caucasian mountains have been a symbol of wilderness and paradoxes, a region where individuals and souls were fundamentally f

pment. With decreasing per capita gross national product in many countries, deteriorating terms of trade in others, and still others staggering under Tolstoyan debt burdens, the developing countries face an uncertain future. These problems are compounded by an alarmingly high level of net transfers of reso

iew amounts to a serious miscalculation on the part of the developed countries. Harvey Leibenstein in his book Beyond Economic Man has reminded us of Tolstoy's -critique in War and Peace of those military experts who predicted the outcome of battles by looking at the quantifiable elements of the strength o

ven prior to communism, Russia made itself felt partly through its conflicts with the Ottoman empire, partly through its great literature, especially Tolstoy, partly through its missions and schools, partly through the Greek Orthodox Church. Communism brought in its own challenge to a region where economic