Dimensions
129 x 198 x 34mm
Dostoevsky first conceived of this book as a novel-pamphlet in which he intended to say everything about Russia's new liberal reformers, whom he loathed - particularly the group of anti-Czarist political terrorists known as Nihilists. During the winter of 1869 this group, in the course of plotting destruction, murdered one of their own; this event and the ensuing trial became the nucleus of Dostoevsky's unfolding masterwork.
