Why should you read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"? - Brendan Pelsue 

Yeah, that kept me a bit confused there!

Reupload it please.

That got me counting on my figures..

a common mistake, as Nicholas II's is far well known and thus people will generally associate revolution in Russia to his name *ehm* the February & October rebolution

TED-Ed is there public access to the original 1200 page version of War and Peace? Because the scale of what he was writing sounds like it could be converted into a video game.

very well said

Pretty much the second real book I'm about to read (I only listen to audio books). I'm on page 7 and I'm starting to realize what I got myself into.

And mutual consent.

@Stiltzkin Vanserine Hah! Quite true.

I know a girl who read it 3 times

Bell Maximus Cattus in Russia it is a must to read 'War and Peace‘ at school

@Bell Maximus Cattus plenty of people have time you just have to dedicate yourself to it, use those six hours and read and then the next day read for one or two just find time you would be doing nothing or say even before bed, instead of social media just read for a while.

@Bell Maximus Cattus is there a video about communist propaganda in hollywood? gonna look

@@eminemilly how does Tolstoy must read rule in Russian schools relevant to communist propoganda or any kind of propoganda? And how is Tolstoy related to communist at all? Sure you are a person who use War and Pease as an idiom.

Bruh tolstoy is a famous writer

exactly. Being much older than 30-40, I've re-read it and now understand why it is considered the greatest novel ever written

❤🙏

Interesting! I'm 79 and just starting to read the book that I have intended to read for years. Do you think I will live long enough to finish it?

​@@jimw.4161yes, if you have 3-4 hours in day. I have read all toms through 2 months, it easy to read

@@user-cr2yx6ky4y Thank you for your encouragement. 👍 I am slogging my way through Tolstoy's masterpiece and have been amply rewarded for my efforts. War and Peace is a remarkable book and should be on everyone's reading list at some point in their lives.

I HAVEN'T READ IT YET SOUND'S LIKE A GOOD BOOK

Best book I have ever read, to pull all these individual stories together is a masterpiece.

The last Epilogue was a waste. It wasn't part of the novel.

I think all Tolstoy’s works are easy to read. I’ve only read one, “The death of Ivan Ilych” just 60 pages long, I couldn’t stop until I finished. Nothing shook me more about death than that book!

Mood

Lol

We all give up sooner or later...

Seriously. I don't even always care figuring out who is actually who. Think of it as a painting, or a dance. Yet, sometimes Tolstoy writes 25 pages for something that could be said in one sentence, it's just more fun that way.

Exactly how I am reading it

haha

Good one 😂😂

And how can he tell the story about big bang, without the story of Queen Elisabeth causing it.

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking is just a prequel to War and Peace

Tehleel Mir haha

How many pages does the book have ?

lol the publisher was paying tolstoy 75 silver rubles for 1 page and obviously tolstoy was interested in writing as much as possible

Da normie, literally

@@richardnascaw1237 800+

​@@richardnascaw1237 1400

what else do you need wives for if you don't have a typewriter..

@Edward HARRISON [13M3] His wife was Sophia Tolstoya, and his sister was actually Mariya Tolstoya.

I’m sure she was very intimidated by it’s length. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

He also abused her heavily and made her give birth all the time. He was a tyrant, a horrible man. You can see his misogyny in his books too. He makes women useless side characters who would rather forgive their husbands for cheating or crazy Anna Karenina-like main characters.

@@AA-np5tj yes he was a horrible person, i agree with that. I wouldn't say that his women characters are that simple,though. I find them rather complex and sometimes actually very interesting (like Maria Bolklnskaya, for example).

life was slower at that time, i think she was ok and happy

double space, 12 font?

Rochana Samarasinghe double space, 14 font comic sans, 2 inch margins XD

I can barely write a single paragraph...

THE UNDERGROUNDER i can't even think of a good topic to write about.

i ca

I felt the same way when I finished Les Misérables. I actually cried from the loss. These books are larger-than-life, and you feel it.

Big brother is watching

Baader Meinhof phenomenon :3

Not a coincidence

Your FBI agent cares about you

haha same I'm on Part 2...what a massive book! :-)

you must have more time now lol

@@RaphyJmusic oh yes, plenty!

One should have enough time to read 1000 books before 30

this comment aged poorly

@@efrainpiracon9843 I have ADHD and I felt attacked by your comment.

Is this the program we were supposed to check out?

...Why do I find it's actually a somewhat easy read?? :o Seriously, background of history study may be of service here, but also - what? Knowledge about "the truth" of wars, bereft of propaganda? Life experience? A non-atheist approach to life/the world/people/the universe? A slight clue about the russian mentality? Possible.

everyone's got 9 different names!

so look it up in your programmmm

We'd appreciate it, thanks a lot

Yes! Wholeheartedly agree :)

Yes!

@@swarnimasingh1598 tune pari yeh kitaab?

I know a person who is your doppler ganger

@@waqarjilani6538 tune parhni kya?

Good luck and have fun reading it!

Are you sticking with it? It is on my reading “ bucket list”. At 63 l suppose l should get started 🤓😷💉💉🇨🇦

OmStars same, I'm hoping to finish it by Thanksgiving.

Did you finish it ??

Did you do it bro? I'm 15 and thinking about reading it after the art of war

Молодец!👍

They committed suicide by taking up communism.

@@rohith3898 we comitted suicide taking up capitalism

Mateus Costa nope 2 centuries of capitalism past and we are still alive, but communism didn’t make it to our days :(

Mateus Costa and I hope never makes

@@travoltik communism never happened, se had leninism, stalinism, maoism, chavism and other "tentatives" spoiled by autoritarian leaders, dictators. Whilst capitalism survives on the cost of many lives, and time to time we have some kind of crisis (1929,1970,1980,2008,2014, and now), capitalism is literally slavery on makeup

На самом деле нам крупно повезло что мы можем прочесть это все в оригинале, ровным счётом как их книги могут утратить часть шарма в многочисленных переводах

"Special military operation and peace" by Leo Tolstoy

@@M43782 тонко

@@M43782 "special military operation and national betrayal" will be more accurate

Decemberists.

I love your comment for some reason

Your choice of light reading during flight is really strange.....

You write your comments like you read your books

You sound really pretentious.

It’ has been actually read by all the 9th graders in Soviet schools, only one of the long list of summer reading…

bacchusstyle You bought it 2 days ago and still didn't read it yet? wft?

John Cena It was not the only one book I bought two days ago. Usually, shorter books first and longer at the final. Since War and Peace have 1300 pages...

bacchusstyle Oh okay. That makes sense :D

I bought this book 7 years ago, definitely have to read it! I'll start... tomorrow ;)

Arominit Then John Cena's first comment definitely was for you!

The stress was off, but he's got the spirit alright)

Its size is the most discouraging thing about it

E no

Make me😆

Ugh ok fine

When using an audio book with the book in hand it's not so intimidating. For some reason the mind doesn't view such tasks as a mountain so large when it doesn't have to do all the work on its own.

Rofl

lijo jose The big bang

lijo jose HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I thought the book was based upon real historical figures with fictional ones mixed in, not the other way around?

There's already a book for that.

I have to read it in 1 month for a school project😬

@@zaraal-laleh6937 watch War and Peace (2016) & read the abridged version

YESSSSS im 14 and reading it. Only been reading for a month but im about halfway through. Lmao I wanted to challenge myself but its honestly so amazing that its just a joy to read at this point (though it can be quite dull in the war parts sometimes)

@@youtubecommentor1338 I read the whole thing in 2 weeks.

"a wholesome experience" I mean, sure, literally... but...

Russian authors have a very interesting take on humanity as a whole. They delve into the human psyche deeper than any other. Anna Karenina is the perfect example of how much you can hate the deeds of a person but completely understand the circumstances in which they were done. Dostoevsky and Nabokov are two other wonderful writers.

TheHarabeli100 is

I really do suggest all of Tolstoy's books. It's fascinating how he viewed the world. There has also been many great TV shows, musicals, and other books even based on his works. I suggest Dave Malloy's "Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812" after reading War and Peace.

Anna Karenina is a marvelous book, but War and Peace is an over verbose, dull and, tbh, at least 8 times longer than it needs to be. Anyone who tells your how great it is is either: A- an incredibly boring person whose idea of extreme sport is stamp collecting, or (and far more likely!) B- has never actually READ the damn thing, and is just a pretentious BS merchant. My advice would be to find something more interesting to do for the month or four it will take you to read( depending on whether you have a job or not!)

I don't think you should worry about it's size at all if you read "Anna Karenina". "War and Peace" is only 1.5 times longer than "Anna Karenina". Reading with an average speed, you'll only need 20 hours to finish "Anna'" and 30 hours to finish "W&P". That's 10 and 15 days respectively if you read 2 hours a day before sleep (this calculation that Google gave me seems about right - I did finish W&P in two weeks). People really exaggerate the size of the book, it's 2 times shorter than the "Harry Potter" series that so many have read (and a lot of them more than once). It's only a little bit longer than "Lord of the Rings". It takes much less time than watching "The Game of Thrones".

lol

Right? It sounds like a real-world Russian Game of Thrones

But it does have dragons. French dragons of the imperial guard as heavy cavalry :)) And they reach Moscow. And then there is a lot of ice and fire drama :)

@@adrianmpopa Send in the Guard

Nah... No need to over complicate it. Just make an manga or anime series based around it and make the women waifus and the guys anime protagonist and the weeaboos will pour in.

LiviotheDoubleFang god I Loved that show.

Hima Talha ++

😄😄😄

Snarky Edmonton Cyclist It's such a shame how he carried on.

oh those Russians...

Russia's greatest love machine

War and society. That will be right

No, it's not. Your professor is wrong. In pre-revolutionary Russian language there were two words "mir" - мир (piece) and мiръ (world). The original had the first option - мир. This was explained to me by my teacher of Russian language and literature in college.

@@user-jf8pj7wb5n , the original title of the book when it was published in 1869 was "Война и миръ" that is, it used the form that meant "the World". If you care to look at the Wikipedia entry about "War and peace" you will find there a picture of the title page of the 1869 First edition of the book.

@@tombrunila2695 You do not see the difference between "мИр" and "мiръ"? If you add "ъ" to the word мир, this will not change the meaning of the word. In Russian, it was customary to put "ъ" at the end, but the Soviets changed the rules of the language.

Spooksandooks watch the mini series

Spooksandooks are you kidding?

Yes you should read it.

Damn.

Omkar Paropkari why would you think otherwise

haha that sounds so harsh but it makes me laugh at what kids would come up with

*meet

@@astrumdeus7098 Yep, thanks

i think his mean is not only *one* main characters but i agree with u Andrei,Pierre,Natasha,Nikolai are main characters

Agreed

Have you read it? 🧐

@@pranjalbajpai885 Two times. Why? Now I'm reading Dumas. It is something wrong about reading?

And which is even more mind-blowing, Tolstoy somehow managed to write a book that is applicable to any living human being, its universal and no matter what part of the world you live, you still have a 100% reference in YOUR life to any event described in the book.

@@alexlalex5223 True! Its universal & timeless

@@alexlalex5223 I know one more book that would apply to your life no matter what your situation currently be. And it is 7 times larger than tolstoy's "War and Peace". A book that could tell about how life happens, how wars are won, how is politics played, and how does society change. How do men become gods and gods become humans. How are countries made and how do they perish. How do differences in societies change over time. What is death and what is life? What is right and what is wrong. Yet, when you reach the end of the book, you are left with questions and more questions, but not answers.

@@hh-zm9gr What's the book?

It is known that Tolstoy specifically meant *"peace"* not *"society"*. At his time, the words had different spelling in Russian: *"миръ"* =peace, *"міръ"*=world. Tolstoy used the first one. There is some argument about typos in the early editions, but Tolstoy also used very unambiguous french translation _"La guerre et la paix."_ which can only be translated as "War and peace." But you are right, the book is gloomy.

Yes, because Russia is the embodiment of peace in our increasingly turbulent times.

Not necessarily, interesting point but I don't thing your right, peace is also a very important aspect of в&м, and that is where a lot of the plot is centred around, life, prosperity, functioning in society, goals, personality, expectations, reality, death, anomie, etc

you are wrong. yes, in tolstoy's times the word 'mir' also meant 'world', but in a different way. 'world' was an equivalent to people, community. here's one example - 'на миру и смерть красна' (misfortunes are easier to bear when a person is with people who share a similar fate). when tolstoy sent his book to the publisher, the title was 'war and peace', but somebody misspelled it and the book was published as 'war and world' (= people). tolstoy accepted that and didn't argue about it

The legend is popular (even today!) yet totally incorrect. Tolstoy used the correct spelling for the meaning 'peace'. It is just nobody actually had a look into the original edition of 1869 (as well as multiple editions that followed).

you’re gonna love it ;D

What song was this?

@@messupd it sounds a bit like prologue at some parts i'm honestly not sure.

the song in the background isn't from the great comet at all, but i will say it does sound a little like the intro to 'letters' at some points.

Same, I read the thing last year and thought it was amazing. Now I've read it again this year and it strikes me totally differently. There is just so much good stuff in it.

A classy man

I re-read classics at well! You really do notice different things each time ;)

I can teach you Russian if you would like :)

@@user-yf5qw3kb2r very sweet of you to offer!

no I read them both and for me Tolstoi feels much smoother to read than Dostojevski

Now we know what your particular opinion is.

Who's Afraid of Erik Nørding? Do you think that I'd enjoy it (Brothers Karmazov) if I hated Crime and Punishment? I enjoy reading around the topic of free will, so I added this book into my amazon wish list some time ago, but after reading ' the double' and 'crime and punishment' I don't think Dostoyevsky suits my taste :(. For the record I enjoyed Bulgakovs 'Master and Margarita'. (Don't know if that's of any relevance :D)

Mikus Interesting question! The very first Russian work I read was Crime and Punishment and the second, by coincidence, just happened to be The Double. I liked C and P but didn't love it and equate its reputation to other books such as The Old Man And The Sea by Hemingway and 1984 by Orwell; meaning, I've never understood why these works are what is best known to their respective authors. I think the first part of The Double is genius but soon after I lost interest. To answer your question, I think if you were completely put off by C and P then you probably will not enjoy The Brothers K, despite it being a vastly superior work. However, it is one of the great works of literature and I would still recommend to you and anyone else give it a try. If you do have an interest in Russian lit., 'Fathers and Sons by Turgenev is a work that might be more up your alley.

Who's Afraid of Erik Nørding? I just found Rodion's behaviour frustrating :P. I might give Dostoyevsky one more chance, but it won't happen until I have read Mann's 'Dr Faustus'!

Ударение не там поставили. яснАя

Rrock Cj, ох уш энти иносранцы )

ага

Там еще и "поляна" прочитали по-польски, перепутав букву L с Ł

minus1, Зачем так на ровном месте обижать?

Javier marias your face tomorrow

@@nekhlioudovbolkonsky2901 Don Quixote, obviously.

Bhuwan Chand She fell in love with the guy who got friendzoned lol

Bhuwan Chand : Natasha wasn't in love with Anatole, it was just minute infatuation bcs of boredom (as André was away), bcs she'd been very badly received by Prince Bolkonsky senior, André's father (who was against their marriage as his pride was enormous), bcs she was very only 17years old and Anatole seemed very charmin, and few other causes.

@@milamilavich8417 Thats what love is, if its logical and calculated it aint it.

Natasha doesn't understand love upto where I've read the book so far. She confuses it with admiration and is more infatuated with the idea of it than the real thing. (I'm a third of the way in) very realistic characters like the epic voiceover guy said.

@@yeanahman2823 Natasha truly loved Andrei, but what did he expect leaving a young unexperienced in love girl FOR A YEAR without answering any letters. She even thought that he will never marry her.

You can't compare the emptiness of Rowling's writing style with Tolstoi. Harry Potter is nice for children to show them how easy it can be to read something. War and Peace is an adult piece of art to question your accumulated perception of life and history. A one-time completion of War and Peace can be equaled to over 5 times all novels of Rowling together in terms of focus needed.

Illidan Stormrage Remarkable rhetorical work, Illidan. This is what your mother hoped would develop out of her offspring. To help out your simple mind: Your initial mindset does not fit here - the book can't change that. When you have grown a pair, you are free to return and try another read.

I didn't see people complain about the serious style it was written in, but only about how big it is. So I am telling what is bigger. I personally like Russian writers.

PopoSimTalia those are different words though ahah

There are only seven Harry Potter books. _The Cursed Attempt to Capitalize off the Success of the Harry Potter Franchise_ is a play.

Good girl!☝🏼

Hehe and im a 14 year old reading it of my own accord (Im about half-way through, don't you dare doubt that I will finish)

@@moirarusaw9567 did you finish it?

@@anjanajnair not quite, I just started summer so I will have a lot more time to read, I was just super busy with school and volleyball stuff. its amazing though

Do not waste your time,I read it ,and it isn’t worth the time,I was falling asleep all the time

How much time does it take

@@9888565407 Years.

@@kamiljimenez272 You've read it?

@@zahidaakhter6440 It was kidding. Not exactly, but I have a friend that take it months D:

@@9888565407 it took me abt two weeks of almost non-stop reading but I'm Russian so maybe it's easier for me

Finally able to come back to my comment and say I finished it!!! I LOVED it so much. I expect to be re-reading it every year for the rest of my life

Who translated the book you were reading?

Всегда приятно видеть становление России всё более светской страной :-) хотя бы на примере того, что люди становятся более восприимчивыми к контенту на международном языке.

Глобализация радует с:

Kalmaved , кажется, что эти вещи не имеют прямой связи, ведь светское государство - это отделение гос-ва от церкви и отсутствие гос. религии, при этом доля знающих иностранный язык может быть вполне велика.

*Medved4tube*, согласен, неправильно употребил слово :-) имел в виду «не замкнутой на себе».

Современному читателю будет очень трудно понять «Войну и мир». Надо много знать об эпохе, о культуре и об истории, чтобы начать отличать вкрапления исторических событий от вымысла автора. Без комментариев знающих людей даже мы с вами, соратники, полностью теряемся в тексте, потому что попадаем в непонятный мир. Что уж говорить о наших англоязычных коллегах. Я не стесняюсь признаться, что понял очень и очень мало, потому что плохо знаком с тем миром, который описывает Толстой. Мне не понятны мотивы, мировоззрение персонажей и отношение автора к происходящему. Я живу в 21 веке, моюсь каждый день и не понимаю, почему Толстому не по нраву, что Наполеон мылся и следил за собой. Запомнилась одна интересная мысль: быстрой связи не было, и военачальнику тех времён приходилось работать с устаревшей информацией. Интересная головоломка - по обрывочным запаздывающим донесениям достроить в голове модель происходящего, спрогнозировать события и отдать команды, которые повысят исход сражения. Разумеется, интересно это до тех пор, пока не вспомнишь, что речь идёт не о математической задаче, а о людях, погибающих в страшных муках непонятно за что. Наверняка понимающий человек откроет в романе что-то увлекательное. Я же скучал, считал страницы до конца и хотел, чтобы этот туман скорее прошёл. Если вы плохо знакомы с историей начала 19 века и мало знаете об обычиях тех времён, не мучайте себя этим трудом. И главное! Толстой - не историк. Эта работа - вольная интерпретация автора в угоду художественному замыслу, а не точное описание того, что произошло.

Natasha falls in love with every one. She broke poor andrew heart

Sir Comsatteur There's a war going on out there, somewhere...

aND ANDREY ISN'T HEEERRREEEE-

I was waiting for this comment

Honestly same

I am not sure but I think the first one is My Country by the Red Army.

Replying also for the same reason

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Carl Wright same

After a long search, I found it! It's darude-sandstorm

Боюсь не склеишь так уже)

Да, современных девушек так точно не склеишь ты прав)

And boys too 🌈

Danil Kron lol

no you can't. Everyone reads it in school.

Erica Stevens Same

Erica Stevens relatable

Tbh

NATASHAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

Have I missed something? What is it? UPD: oh, I see, sounds nice 😀

Even then...

By the way, he had a very curious diary with short notes. It's almost like... Twitter?

@@t.d.3090 yep

What about Stephen King? lol

@@andreakoeries7230 nope he's too busy writing his 700 pages weekly novel.

Hahaha

Brandon Hernandez I saw it too

Brandon Hernandez can i watch it here in youtube

It's the mini series that got me interested to read the book 🙂

It's only available on Netflix or DVD right now- It only came out last year!

any one know the name?

How long did it take you?

what a legend

I think she is in her 5th time now, will take time to respond.

And here I am can't even understand Alice adventure in the wonderland lol

Now try the Bible.