Original: In the complete edition of Dostoevsky 's writings published in the Soviet Union , the editors reassembled and printed the notebooks that the writer kept while working on Crime and Punishment , in a sequence roughly corresponding to the various stages of composition .
Simplified: When Dostoevsky 's complete writings were published in the Soviet Union , the editors put together the notebooks that Dostoevsky kept while he was working on Crime and Punishment and printed it .