Set in mid 19th-century Russia, Demons examines the effect of a charismatic but unscrupulous self-styled revolutionary leader on a group of credulous followers.Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a ‘novel-pamphlet’ in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia-a novel that is rivaled only by The Brothers Karamazov as Dostoevsky’s greatest.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 1041 ● ISBN 9788834133637 ● File size 1.0 MB ● Publisher Synapse Publishing ● Published 2019 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7033123 ● Copy protection Social DRM