RT Book T1 Dostoevsky's democracy A2 Ruttenburg, Nancy 1952- LA English PP Princeton PB Princeton University Press YR 2025 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1655642227 AB Dostoevsky's Democracy offers a major reinterpretation of the life and work of the great Russian writer by closely reexamining the crucial transitional period between the early works of the 1840s and the important novels of the 1860s. Sentenced to death in 1849 for utopian socialist political activity, the 28-year-old Dostoevsky was subjected to a mock execution and then exiled to Siberia for a decade, including four years in a forced labor camp, where he experienced a crisis of belief. It has been influentially argued that the result of this crisis was a conversion to Russian Orthodoxy and re OP 275 NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-261) and index. - Description based on print version record CN PG3328.Z7 SN 978-1-4008-2892-0 SN 1-4008-2892-9 K1 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821-1881 : Political and social views K1 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821-1881 : Criticism and interpretation K1 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor : 1821-1881 : Criticism and interpretation K1 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor : 1821-1881 : Political and social views K1 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821-1881 : Political and social views : Criticism and interpretation K1 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor K1 Serfdom : History : Russia K1 Democracy in literature K1 Serfdom : Russia : History K1 LITERARY CRITICISM ; Russian & Former Soviet Union K1 Political and social views K1 Politics and government K1 Serfdom K1 Criticism, interpretation, etc K1 History K1 Russia (Federation) : Politics and government : 1801-1917 K1 Russia K1 Russia (Federation) K1 Electronic books