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050			_aPG3326 _b.B6 2022
100			_aDostoyevsky, Fyodor _d1821-1881 _eauthor _923168
240	1	0	_aBesy. _lEnglish.
245	1	0	_aDevils _c/ Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated by Roger Cockrell.
260			_aLondon : _bAlma Classics, _c2017.
300			_axiv, 746 pages : _billustrations (black and white) ; _c20 cm.
500			_aTranslated from the Russian.
520			_aAs ideological ferment grips Russia, a small group of revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky and inspired by Nikolai Stavrogin, plan to spread destruction and anarchy throughout the country. Morally bankrupt, they are prepared to use whatever means necessary to achieve their goal, including murder and incitement to suicide. But when they are forced to test the limits of their doctrine and kill one of their own to secure the secrecy of their mission, the ragtag group breaks up in mutual recrimination. Devils is at once a compelling political statement and a study of atheism and its calamitous effect on a country that is teetering on the edge of an abyss. Seen as Dostoevsky’s most powerful indictment of man’s propensity to violence, this darkly humorous work, shot through with grotesque comedy, is presented here in Roger Cockrell’s masterful new translation.
650		0	_aNihilism _vFiction _924440
650		0	_aTerrorists _zRussia _vFiction _924441
651		0	_aRussia (Federation) _xSocial life and customs _y1533-1917 _vFiction _924427
655		0	_aPolitical fiction _923170
700			_aCockrell, Roger _etranslator _923132
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