Tolstoyanadj.n.
/ˈtɒlstɔɪən/ A. adj.
Of or relating to Tolstoy.
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society > society and the community > study of society > [adjective] > theories or methods of analysis
functional1884
Webbite1890
neo-critical1894
structural-functional1898
Tolstoyan1898
functionalist1907
Webbian1913
Paretian1916
situational1916
Paretan1932
verstehende1933
reflexive1934
same-level1934
sociographic1934
idealistic1937
ideational1937
Parsonian1945
social Darwinist1945
culturalist1948
structural1948
contextualized1951
metasociological1953
structural functionalist1953
meta-sociologistic1964
Lévi-Straussian1967
postcolonial1970
decontextualized1971
cliometric1974
postcolonialist1981
intersectional1989
1898 Daily News 6 Oct. 5/4 Anything more distant from the Quaker, or Stundist, or Tolstoian view of military things..it would be difficult to imagine.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 22 Mar. 2/2 We are not converted to any Tolstoyan gospel by this book.
1905 Contemp. Rev. May 685 The Tolstoyan gospel of Christian morality apart from faith in the Supernatural.
B. n.
A follower of Tolstoy or his teachings.
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society > society and the community > study of society > [noun] > theories or methods of analysis > one who follows or uses
Tolstoyist1894
functionalist1900
Tolstoyan1901
social Darwinist1903
participant observer1924
Paretian1932
mass observer1937
symbolic interactionist1937
structuralist1947
action researcher1950
structural functionalist1953
cliometrician1966
Paretan1969
critical theorist1970
Lévi-Straussian1980
1901 Daily Chron. 30 May 3/1 Already the Tolstoyans are becoming a sect.
Derivatives
ˈTolstoyism n. the opinions or teachings of Tolstoy.
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society > society and the community > study of society > [noun] > theories or methods of analysis > specific
socialism1801
Darwinism1875
social Darwinism1877
Webbism1893
Tolstoyism1894
Paretanism1949
structuralism1951
Parsonianism1963
critical race theory1989
1894 Westm. Gaz. 12 Nov. 5/3 An article by a Russian correspondent on the harrying of Tolstoyists by the police in the Southern and Central provinces…the banishment of a certain Prince Khilkov..a rich landowner who had given up his estates to the poor in his neighbourhood, and was actively engaged in propagating the peculiar tenets known as Tolstoyism.
ˈTolstoyist n. = B.
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society > society and the community > study of society > [noun] > theories or methods of analysis > one who follows or uses
Tolstoyist1894
functionalist1900
Tolstoyan1901
social Darwinist1903
participant observer1924
Paretian1932
mass observer1937
symbolic interactionist1937
structuralist1947
action researcher1950
structural functionalist1953
cliometrician1966
Paretan1969
critical theorist1970
Lévi-Straussian1980
1894Tolstoyists [see Tolstoyism n.].
Draft additions 1993
Tolˈstoyanism n. (adherence to) the principles of non-violent social and moral reform proposed by or associated with Tolstoy.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific political theories or doctrines > [noun] > theories or doctrines of specific person
Machiavellianism1607
Monroe doctrine1849
Smithism1876
Tolstoyanism1909
Austinianism1917
Poujadism1955
1909 Chesterton Orthodoxy vii. 195 The net result of all our political suggestions, Collectivism, Tolstoyanism, Neo-Feudalism, Communism, Anarchy, Scientific Bureaucracy..is that the Monarchy and the House of Lords will remain.
1972 M. Glenny tr. Solzhenitsyn August 1914 xlii. 424 Varsonofiev mentioned something to do with Tolstoyanism... ‘He's not really much of a Tolstoyan, you know. In his village, for instance, they call him a narodnik.’
1984 M. Scammell Solzhenitsyn (1985) i. 29 Tolstoyanism was an ill-defined philosophico-religious movement inspired by Tolstoy's ideas about nonresistance to violence and the need for a kind of agrarian socialism in Russia.
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