Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Tolstoy comes to Soviet Central Asia.

The critics scoff, but I like it. A Soviet-era story told in the style of a Tolstoyan novel. Solzhenitsyn's description of the bureaucrat's descent toward death compares favorably with Lev Tolstoy's masterpiece -- "The Death of Ivan Ilych." Unfortunately, Solzhenitsyn's weird Slavophile and religious views have alienated many in the Western and Russian intellectual elites thereby reducing the respect for his work. "Cancer Ward," however, continues to stand out as a thought-provoking and well-crafted novel.