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About the product For a long time after it was written, The Possessed remained a novel, the reading of which depended on the political views of the reader and often on which side of the Soviet border the reader was. Having conceived a work on the topic of the day, the classic created it “for the evil of centuries”. It all started with the murder of student Ivan Ivanov, a member of the revolutionary society «People’s Repression», by his own circle for his unwillingness to participate in the next action. The event caused a great resonance in society, and Dostoevsky took up the novel as an evil anti-nihilist pamphlet. But under the pen of the master, the work turned into a psychological thriller and a social drama of the world. A world in which people have lost their harmony and meaning, having felt the fatal influence of new ideas and being, in the words of the writer Vasily Avseenko, «internally inconsistent natures, amazed by the powerlessness and sterility of semi-education.» History for all time. The abstract «Demons» is one of the most tragic, mysterious and attractive works of F.M. Dostoevsky. The ideological and philosophical outline of the novel, written in 1872, turned out to be prophetic: the events of the twentieth century largely confirmed the genius of the writer’s foresight. …
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