Tolstoy's interpretation of money and property

by Milivoy S. Stanoyevich

[61] Du Caractere Collectif des Premieres Propriétés Immobilieres, 1872.

[62] De la Propriété et de ses Formese Primitives, 1874. [English tr. 1878].

[63] L’Evolution de la Propriété, 1888. [English translation, 1892].

[64] Ancient Law, ch. VIII. London, 1861.

[65] Especially P. Lafargue, The Evolution of Property, 1908.

[66] On this Pope, Professor P. Villari says: “One of his strongest passions was an insatiable greed for gold ... he accumulated the immense fortune that served to raise him to the papacy”.... See Storia di Girolamo Savonarola e de’ suvi tempi, 1859. English by Ll. Villari, 1909, ch. IX, 152.

[67] The Rights of Property, by A. Thiers, London, 1848.

[68] The Origin of Property in Land, by F. de Coulanges. English translation, London, 1891.

[69] On the private property during the French Revolution see Le Socialisme et la Revolution Francaise, par Dr. A. Lichtenberg, Paris, 1899, ch. VII, 1. Another valuable book on this subject is The French Revolution and Modern French Socialism, by Dr. J. B. Peixotto, New York, 1901, ch. I, 4; ch. III, 3; and ch. VI, 2.

[70] See Progress and Property, by H. George, 1879, bk. VII-VIII. Tolstoy mentioned George in several of his political articles, and wrote Two Letters on Henry George, 1893. In Wiener’s translations of the Complete Works of Count Tolstoy, these Two Letters are published in volume XXIII, pp. 396-401.