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In the setting of what is present-day Kazakhstan, Tolstoy examines two psychological problems. The first dilemma is that of a young man who desires both fulfilling love and a place as a respected member of society. The other is the difficulty of a primitive society to accept domination by a higher culture that has no understanding of the traditions it asks its colonists to cast aside. One of Tolstoy's lesser-known novels, The Cossacks is one of the finest pictures of Cossack society in all of Russian literature.
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"The best story that has been written in our language."
Ivan Turgenev
"It was with a kind of amaze that I read [The Cossacks] and felt, word by word and line by line, the truth of a new art in it."
William Dean Howells