The Tolstoyan movement is a social movement based on the philosophical and religious views of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy's views were formed by rigorous study of the ministry of Jesus, part
Vladimir Chertkov (left) with Leo Tolstoy (right)
Tolstoy organising famine relief in Samara, 1891.
Mohandas K. (later Mahatma) Gandhi and other residents of Tolstoy Farm, 1910
Nonresistance is "the practice or principle of not resisting authority, even when it is unjustly exercised". At its core is discouragement of, even opposition to, physical resistance to an enemy. It i
Mahatma Gandhi used the principle of nonresistance protest in Indian independence movement.
Burial site of the Moravian Christian Indian Martyrs, who were murdered by U.S. militiamen in the Gnadenhutten massacre