Fyodor Dostoevsky was defeated by history. A man who viciously attacked and satirized the ideologies of rationalism and communism and defended traditional religious and family structures, Dostoevsky died just decades before the Bolshevik revolution was carried out by the very people he satirized in his novel Demons (1871-2). Russia was possessed and the spirit of the age represented everything Dostoevsky opposed.
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