Leo Tolstoy and the Kingdom of God Within You

This volume is an analysis and new translation of Leo Tolstoy’s most influential compositions. The initial sections of this book contain an Introduction, a Biography of Leo Tolstoy, and an Analysis of Tolstoy’s Convictions. The balance and bulk of this volume is a new translation of the entire text of Confession; selections from What do I Believe?, On Life, and The Kingdom of God is within You; and the complete text of The Gospels in Brief. Included are 2 of Tolstoy’s smaller compositions on love and belief, as well as his excommunication from the Russian Orthodox Church, and his response to the excommunication. To conclude the volume is a selection of Tolstoy’s aphorisms from his various compositions. Tolstoy, apart from being one of the worlds greatest writers, also deals with political, economic, sociological and domestic issues based on his understanding of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in his compositions, including an explanation of the concept of Christian pacifism.