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by Leo Tolstoy

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  Explain the Cossacks’ perception of Russians presented in The Cossacks. Why didn't Olenin fit the stereotype?
  The Cossacks, as Tolstoy depicts them, have more in common culturally with the mountaineer Muslim peoples of the Caucasus than they have with the Russians. What links them to the Russians is...

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  What is a comparison between The Great Gatsby and The Cossacks? How are the main characters alike? How are they different?
  The Great Gastby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, follows Nick Caraway, a young bonds salesman who meets the mysterious Jay Gatsby in the summer of 1922. Nick soon becomes entangled in the romantic...

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  Analyze the values and worldviews concerning the Eurasian frontier presented in the The Cossacks. Explain the Cossacks’ perception of Russians presented in The Cossacks and why Olenin did not fit the stereotype. Compare and contrast notions of...
  The Cossacks, like other stories Tolstoy sets in the Caucasus and outlying areas of the Russian Empire, is both an examination of the culture of non-Russians living under the Czar and a critique of...

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