The Kingdom of God is Within You

A modern-English edition of Leo Tolstoy’s 1894 work on religion, nonviolence, conscience, and resistance to state power. This book had major influence on later traditions of nonviolent resistance, including figures like Gandhi. This edition preserves Tolstoy’s intensity and moral seriousness while making the prose far easier to read.

The Kingdom of God Is Within You is both a religious work and a political one. It attacks coercion, war, institutional religion, and obedience to unjust authority, and it does so with unusual force.

For readers interested in Christianity, pacifism, moral resistance, and radical critiques of the modern state, it remains urgent and unusually alive.