First year undergraduate, Patrick Maxwell, introduces new edition of Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God Is Within You"

First-year History undergraduate Patrick Maxwell has recently introduced a new edition of Leo Tolstoy's 1894 non-fiction work The Kingdom of God Is Within You, published by the American publisher Warbler Classics.

The polemic is a vivid statement of Tolstoy's doctrine of non-violent resistance and explores the profound implications of Tolstoy's all-encompassing religious worldview. Patrick's introduction was also published as 'Tolstoy's Search for Truth: The Kingdom of God' by the online magazine TheArticle.com. 

In it he sets Tolstoy's political and philosophical views in the light of his fictional works, and discusses the commentary of the philosopher and former New College Fellow Isaiah Berlin, whose essays have had a deep impact on Anglophone interpretations of Russian writers. The new edition continues Patrick's work with Warbler Classics, which has produced several editions of Ukrainian and Russian literature – by authors including Gogol and Dostoevsky – over the past two years.