Nonviolent Christianity · critique of state and church · 1828–1910
Leo Tolstoy
Seek a meaning that death cannot undo, and refuse violence.
Yasnaya Polyana · Moscow · Astapovo
Reading guides
A thread to guide your reading.
Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.
Meaning in the face of death
Follow the crisis of A Confession from the questions that halt a successful life to the faith by which working people live.
A ConfessionSincere art and its counterfeits
Test Tolstoy’s definition of art as the transmission of lived feeling against the works you value most.
What Is Art?Nonviolence and conscience
Examine how The Kingdom of God Is Within You turns the Sermon on the Mount into a critique of the state.
The Kingdom of God Is Within You