Tolstoy's Search for the Kingdom of God

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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.

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This book uncovers queer-anarchist dimensions of the second half of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy's life (1828-1910), and the Russian writer's later art-works. It features queer-friendly readings of classics like Anna Karenina (1875-1877), "The Death of Ivan Ilych" (1886), and Resurrection (1899).

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Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations and Credits

1. Introduction: The Kingdom of God and the Russo-Ukrainian War

2. The Tragedy of Heterosexuality: Tolstoy's Aversion to Women

3. Sexism vs. Feminism and Landlordism vs. Anarchism in Anna Karenina

4. Tolstoy's Femicidal Misogyny, and Countess Tolstaya's
   Humanizing Artistic Response

5. Kingdom of God vs. Kingdom of Tsar, and Resurrection from Living Death

6. Theological Writings: "Confession" and The Gospels in Brief

7. Mortality, Queer Anarchism, and the Animal Question in Tolstoy's Short Fiction

8. 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

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