| Preface | p. vii |
| The Text of War and Peace | p. 1 |
| Backgrounds and Sources | p. 1075 |
| Map: The Campaign of 1812 | p. 1076 |
| Map: Borodino | p. 1077 |
| Map: Napoleon in Russia--1812 | p. 1078 |
| The Publication History of War and Peace | p. 1081 |
| The Author on the Novel | |
| Extracts from Tolstoy's Letters and Diaries (1865-1868) | p. 1083 |
| [Letter to A. A. Fet--January, 1865] | p. 1083 |
| [Diary--March 2, 1865] | p. 1083 |
| [Diary--March 19, 1865] | p. 1083 |
| [Diary--March 23, 1865] | p. 1083 |
| [Diary--March 28, 1865] | p. 1084 |
| [Letter to L. I. Volkonskaya--May 3, 1865] | p. 1084 |
| [Letter to P. D. Boborykin--July or August, 1865] | p. 1084 |
| [Letter to A. E. Bers--November, 1865] | p. 1084 |
| [Diary--November 12, 1865] | p. 1085 |
| [Letters to M. S. Bashilov--April 4 and December 8, 1866; February 28, 1867] | p. 1085 |
| [Letter to A. A. Fet--November 7, 1866] | p. 1085 |
| [Entry in Tolstoy's Notebook--November 27, 1866] | p. 1086 |
| [Letter to P. I. Bartenev--August 16-18, 1867] | p. 1086 |
| [Letter to P. I. Bartenev--November 1, 1867] | p. 1086 |
| [Letter to P. I. Bartenev--December 6, 1867] | p. 1086 |
| [Letter to P. I. Bartenev--December 8, 1867] | p. 1086 |
| [Letter to M. P. Pogodin--March 21 or 23, 1868] | p. 1086 |
| Drafts for an Introduction to War and Peace | p. 1087 |
| [Draft 1] | p. 1087 |
| [Draft 2] | p. 1087 |
| [Draft 3] | p. 1089 |
| Some Words about War and Peace | p. 1089 |
| Criticism | p. 1097 |
| The Old Gentry | p. 1099 |
| [The Significance of the Last Part of War and Peace] | p. 1101 |
| [The Russian Idea in War and Peace] | p. 1103 |
| Comments on War and Peace | p. 1107 |
| [The Greatness and Universality of War and Peace] | p. 1109 |
| Leo Tolstoy as a Mirror of the Russian Revolution | p. 1111 |
| [Loose Baggy Monsters] | p. 1114 |
| [A Monster Harnessed] | p. 1114 |
| [Details in War and Peace] | p. 1114 |
| [The Genre of War and Peace in the Context of Russian Literary History] | p. 1126 |
| [Tolstoy's Essays as an Element of Structure] | p. 1127 |
| [Tolstoy's Attitude Towards History in War and Peace] | p. 1129 |
| [Tolstoy's Worldview in War and Peace] | p. 1133 |
| About Tolstoy | p. 1137 |
| [On Tolstoy: Materialism, Spiritualism, and Russianness] | p. 1138 |
| The Book That Became War and Peace | p. 1142 |
| States of Human Awareness | p. 1148 |
| [Narrative and Creative Potentials in War and Peace] | p. 1156 |
| [Where Bakhtin Misses the Mark on Tolstoy] | p. 1166 |
| Causal Conditionality | p. 1167 |
| A Note on Russian Literary Criticism | p. 1179 |
| Leo Tolstoy: A Chronology | p. 1183 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 1185 |
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