Original sentence: Stepan follows in the steps of several other key Dostoevsky characters (probably the most notable other example being Versilov in The Adolescent) and illuminates one of his key later themes—that the liberal reformers of the 1840s inadvertently birthed the destructive, violent, nihilistic following generation of the 1860s, who, of course, ultimately deteriorated into the Bolsheviks that Dostoevsky so clearly foresaw (including in an almost eerie scene in this novel when a character that sounds like a direct description of Vladimir Lenin before his actual birth scandalizes the town's literary recital)
Edited sentence: Stepan follows in the steps of several other key Dostoevsky characters (probably the most notable other example being Versilov in The Adolescent) and illuminates one of his key later themes—that the liberal reformers of the 1840s inadvertently birthed the destructive, violent, nihilistic following generation of the 1860s