The Possessed
Publisher: EriK Publications
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Translation of: Бесы
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 702
ISBN-13: 9781530524273
Copyright date: 2015
Other titles: Demons, Devils
Description: In late in 1860s Russia there was an unusual level of political unrest caused by student groups influenced by liberal, socialist and revolutionary ideas imported from Europe. In 1869, Dostoevsky conceived the idea of a 'pamphlet novel' directed against the radicals. He focused on the group organized by young agitator Sergey Nechayev, particularly their murder of a former comrade at the Petrovskaya Agricultural Academy in Moscow. Prior to this, Dostoevsky had been working on a philosophical novel examining the psychological and moral implications of atheism. The political polemic and the psychological novel were merged into a single larger scale project, which became The Possessed.
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