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In 1963, Feuer, who died in 1992, was one of a handful of American scholars permitted for extended periods in the Soviet Union on cultural exchange. In this scholarly work (originally her 1965 doctoral dissertation), published posthumously by her daughter Robin Feuer Miller (who accompanied her mother to the Soviet Union as a child), Feuer explains how Tolstoy, inspired by Decembrist events in Russia in 1856, intended War and Peace to be but the first volume of a Decembrist trilogy. Feuer also maps out differences among the numerous drafts of the novel as well as th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More