# Resurrection — Key Concepts & Themes

> Key concepts in Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy.

- [Moral awakening](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/resurrection_se/concepts/moral-awakening.md): Nekhludoff’s jury duty recognizes Katusha Maslova — guilt from seducing her years ago launches a long attempt at moral resurrection.
- [Legal injustice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/resurrection_se/concepts/legal-injustice.md): Maslova’s trial exposes Russian courts — wrong verdict, class bias, and officials who treat law as career, not justice.
- [Sexual exploitation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/resurrection_se/concepts/sexual-exploitation.md): Maslova’s path from maid to prostitute follows aristocratic seduction and social ruin — Tolstoy indicts men who discard women.
- [Land and economic injustice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/resurrection_se/concepts/land-and-peasants.md): Nekhludoff tries to give land to peasants — Tolstoy tests whether aristocratic repentance can touch structural inequality.

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