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W. J. Stankiewicz, editor. The Tradition of Polish Ideals: Essays in History and Literature. London: Orbis Books Ltd., 1981. 281 pp. GBP6.90.

W. J. Stankiewicz, editor. The Tradition of Polish Ideals: Essays in History and Literature.... warred with Tolstoi's principles. A pacifist, she welcomed Russia's entry into World War I. A believer in nonviolence, she twice levelled a loaded revolver at men who meant her harm. She loved fast horses and later fast cars, taught herself to drive at the age o f fifty, and four years later raced her Ford station wagon across Daytona Beach. Her celebration of the deaths o f her brothers Aleksis and Il'ia is unbearably moving, as affecting a pas- sage o f genuine pathos as anything her father ever wrote, yet the spirit that is most evi- dent throughout these memoirs is one of keen humor and love of life. Alexandra L'vovna quoted with approval Tolstoi's dictum: "Life is but a dream, death is the awakening," but she wrote about the dream. Donald Senese University o f Victoria W. J. Stankiewicz, editor. The Tradition o f Polish Ideals: Essays in History and Literature. London: Orbis Books Ltd., 1981. 281 pp. £6.90. There is, W. J. Stankiewicz argues, a "tradition o f Polish ideals," a paradigm o f "nor- mative principles" that has shaped and influenced Poland's national experience. The his- tory o f Poland is "best understood" if http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

W. J. Stankiewicz, editor. The Tradition of Polish Ideals: Essays in History and Literature. London: Orbis Books Ltd., 1981. 281 pp. GBP6.90.

Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 16 (3-4): 559 – Jan 1, 1982

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Brill
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© 1982 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0090-8290
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2210-2396
DOI
10.1163/221023982X01307
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warred with Tolstoi's principles. A pacifist, she welcomed Russia's entry into World War I. A believer in nonviolence, she twice levelled a loaded revolver at men who meant her harm. She loved fast horses and later fast cars, taught herself to drive at the age o f fifty, and four years later raced her Ford station wagon across Daytona Beach. Her celebration of the deaths o f her brothers Aleksis and Il'ia is unbearably moving, as affecting a pas- sage o f genuine pathos as anything her father ever wrote, yet the spirit that is most evi- dent throughout these memoirs is one of keen humor and love of life. Alexandra L'vovna quoted with approval Tolstoi's dictum: "Life is but a dream, death is the awakening," but she wrote about the dream. Donald Senese University o f Victoria W. J. Stankiewicz, editor. The Tradition o f Polish Ideals: Essays in History and Literature. London: Orbis Books Ltd., 1981. 281 pp. £6.90. There is, W. J. Stankiewicz argues, a "tradition o f Polish ideals," a paradigm o f "nor- mative principles" that has shaped and influenced Poland's national experience. The his- tory o f Poland is "best understood" if

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