1. THE CHURCH’S STRUGGLE AGAINST LEO TOLSTOY

It was during the Volga famine that Tolstoy became famed as an opponent of the government. The famine, which began in the summer, 1891, which was caused by severe frosts in the winter followed by drought in the spring, and “exacerbated by the policy to finance industrialization by borrowing, which in turn had to be paid for by selling grain abroad.” ................
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