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Also known as Demons or The Devils, this is Dostoevsky's most political novel. While criticizing the leftist revolutionaries, divided as they often were into disparate factions and cells, the author also tacitly rebukes the conservative elite for failing to come to terms with the high levels of discontent in the country, a stance that would ultimately lead to their downfall.

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Fiction, Russian fiction, Politics in fiction, Nihilism, Social life and customs, Terrorists, Manners and customs, Romans, Political fiction, Terrorists, fiction, Russia (federation), fiction, Continental European fiction (fictional works of an author), Slavic philology, Terrorism, Nihilism, Terrorism, Novel, Social life and customs, Fiction, general, Nihilism--fiction, Terrorists--russia--fiction, Pg3325 .b6 2008, 891.733, Political science, Psychological fiction, Drama, history and criticism, Long Now Manual for Civilization, PsychologyPlaces

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"Before describing the extraordinary events that occurred so recently in our city, so far without highlighting anything in particular, I consider it necessary, since I am not a skilled writer, to go back a little and begin with certain biographical details about our talented and highly esteemed Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky."