Tolstoy's Search for the Kingdom of God

Javier Sethness Castro is a primary-care provider, libertarian socialist, and author or editor of five other books, including Queer Tolstoy: A Psychobiography and Eros and Revolution: The Critical Philosophy of Herbert Marcuse.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Kingdom of God and the Russo-Ukrainian War2. The Tragedy of Heterosexuality: Tolstoy's Aversion to Women 3. Sexism vs. Feminism and Landlordism vs. Anarchism in Anna Karenina 4. Count Tolstoy's Femicidal Misogyny, and Countess Tolstaya's Humanizing Artistic Response5. Kingdom of God vs. Kingdom of Tsar, and Resurrection from Living Death6. Theological Writings: “Confession” and The Gospels in Brief 7. Mortality, Queer Anarchism, and the Animal Question in Tolstoy's Short Fiction8. Non-Resistance or Non-Cooperation: Which Way Forward?9. Tolstoy's Contributions to World Literature and Global Revolution 10. Conclusion: Social Revolution and Systematic Rescue Works Cited Index

“Well-paced, dynamic, and written in an intriguing style, this book will appeal to audiences familiar with Tolstoy as a political philosopher as well as a literary figure. Those interested in gender issues will be greatly rewarded by reading it.”- Charles Reitz, author of Herbert Marcuse as Social Justice Educator: A Critical Introduction, USA“This erudite book is guided by the project of critical theoretical inquiry into the interaction between personal life and subjectivity, as revealed in biographical details, literary expressions, and social and historical phenomena. These are exhibited through both the course of events and the nature of social structures and institutions. Sethness provides an extremely detailed analysis of Tolstoy’s life and work, and of the writer’s social and historical context. It will prove very stimulating to the reader.”- John P. Clark, author of The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism, USA“This book makes the reader intensely feel the unity of humanity and the connection between academic research and political practice. Tolstoy’s Search for the Kingdom of God is not an apologetic work, but rather, a controversial and inspiring study. It is a call to action for civil and academic disobedience against the ‘shameless imperial appropriation’ of Lev Tolstoy by propagandists of the ‘Russian world.’ Javier Sethness Castro’s transnational, anti-totalitarian, and penetratingly modern Tolstoy belongs to the ‘global union of honest people,’ adherents of humanist principles, and values of non-violence and justice.”- Irina Gordeeva, author of The Forgotten People: A History of the Russian Communitarian Movement, Germany