Input (grade 11): However Dostoevsky, having carried on quite bruising polemics with Katkov in early 1860s, had never published anything in its pages.
Output (grade 7): Dostoevsky, though, had argued with Katkov in the early 1860s, and had never printed anything in the journal. Finally, Dostoevsky asked Katkov for help when others would not print his book.