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About the product «Demons» (1871-1872) is probably Dostoevsky’s most prophetic novel. Originally conceived as an acutely political thing, based on the writer’s impressions of the «nechaev trial»: a group of revolutionaries was tried for the murder of a student who decided to leave their circle, the novel has far outgrown just a work on «the news of the day.» the focus of the agenda is a group of nihilists led by Pyotr Verkhovensky, planning to raise unrest throughout Russia. The main character of the novel, Nikolai Stavrogin, has his own secret, his own terrible sin and his own great misfortune — he is completely devastated, and life is no longer of any interest to him. Events in the novel sweep in a whirlwind before the reader, get entangled in some monstrous tangle and as a result are resolved by tragedy. The present in Dostoevsky’s novel is closely connected with the past: he sees the origins of nihilistic sentiments in children in their idealistic fathers who do not know Russia at all. But the uniqueness of «Demons» is also in the fact that Dostoevsky uses these characters as an example to paint the whole of Russia possessed by demons — yesterday, today, tomorrow madness haunts us. …
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