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The Possessed (the Devils) (Hardcover)
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The Possessed (In Russian:, tr. Besy), also translated as The
Devils or Demons, is an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The
Possessed is an extremely political book, and is a testimonial of
life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. As the
revolutionary democrats begin to rise in Russia, different
ideologies begin to collide. Dostoevsky casts a critical eye on
both the left-wing idealists, exposing their ideas and ideological
foundation as demonic, and the conservative establishment's
ineptitude in dealing with those ideas and their social
consequences. This form of intellectual conservativism tied to the
Slavophil movement of Dostoevsky's day, is seen to have continued
on into its modern manifestation in individuals like Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn. Dostoevsky's novels focusing on the idea that utopias
and positivist ideas, in being utilitarian, were unrealistic and
unobtainable. The book has five primary ideological characters:
Verkhovensky, Shatov, Stavrogin, Stepan Trofimovich, and Kirilov.
Through their philosophies, Dostoevsky describes the political
chaos seen in 19th-Century Russia.
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