Professor David Peimer
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
Summary
The lecure focuses on Tolstoy and his monumental work, War and Peace (1867). Despite the book’s intimidating size and historical context, Tolstoy’s life and the era he lived through provide crucial insights into the themes of his work. Born into privilege, Tolstoy’s early experiences profoundly influenced his worldview and he became increasingly critical of state power and imperialist interventions, advocating for pacifism and non-violent resistance. His life and beliefs transcend the pages of War and Peace, offering timeless lessons on morality, activism, and the pursuit of a more just world.
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.
Putin is tapping into Russian nationalism and the empire, he’s more about pre-communism and going way back to Tsarist Russia. Obviously, what he has created is a total mafia-state and a total dictatorship.
It was the extended family, aristocrats, nannies, nurse maids and so on.
As far as I know, yes. But, of course, there’s all the stuff with his wife as well.