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The Raid is an early Tolstoy short story about a Russian army battle. The novella reads more like a sample chapter from a much larger book. The narrator is viewing the raid as an observer rather than a soldier and I suppose acts as a simple anti-war rhetoric. The Tolstoy story is followed in this version by an afterword by the translator titled “The luminary of Moscow: Tolstoy’s Metapolitics and Oceanic Telos of Mankind which discusses the difference in philosophy between Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, Schopenhauer and others and then by a “Glossary of Philosophic Terminology in Tolstoy� which looks at various terms and Tolstoy’s view on them in his works.
Not the best of Russian literature but as I am reading Tolstoy in order of publication an important part of his works.