This book describes the world-historical forces, acting on the periphery of the modern world in Russia in the 19th century and India in the 20th century which developed the idea of nonviolence in Tolstoy and then in Gandhi. It was from Tolstoy that Gandhi first learned of this idea, but those world-historical forces acted upon and through both men. Tolstoy and Gandhi were at first agents of modern reform, in Russia and India. But then they became rebels against it and led a profound resistance a resistance spiritually rooted in the traditionalism of myriad peasant villages."
- ISBN10 0271004142
- ISBN13 9780271004143
- Publish Date 1 October 1990 (first published April 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 March 1999
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pennsylvania State University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 150
- Language English