Published in 1884 The kingdom of God is within you is perhaps Tolstoys most significant work of non-fiction. Due to the Russian censors it was first published in Germany but its dominant idea of non-violence echoed across the international stage throughout the 20th century. In essence the book is a defence by Tolstoy of the position on non-violence he adopted in My Religion; and therefore also an assault on the Orthodox Church. Nowhere says Tolstoy is there evidence that God or Christ founded an