Leo Tolstoy's reputation rests primarily on two great novels- War and Peace and Anna Karenina-written during his middle years. But Count Tolstoy was a man of unconventional beliefs. A would-be social reformer in tsarist Russia, ever at war with himself and his family, he died in 1910 trying to escape home, fame, and fortune. Critic Martin Green looks at the evolution of Tolstoy's disruptive ideas, which came to influence, in turn, Ma- hatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Although most people would r...