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The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a dark and intense novel about political extremism, moral collapse, manipulation, and the destructive power of ideas when they become more important than human life.The story is set in a provincial Russian town where a group of intellectuals, radicals, idealists, and restless young men become drawn into a network of political agitation. At the center of the turmoil are figures such as Nikolai Stavrogin, a mysterious and deeply troubled man, and Pyotr Verkhovensky, a calculating revolutionary who attempts to organize a secret political group.As tensions ...

Filmmaker and actor, Jack Bishop and Corey Clifford take a close look at the films in their life-long DVD and Blu Ray collections and discuss what each movie means to them today. One-by-one, they revisit the movies (bonus features and all) to decide if they should keep ‘em, trash ‘em or upgrade ‘em. And along the way they share hilarious life stories, insights about the filmmaking process and present film theories that usually cause them to fight each other. It's good movie talk! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Although titled The Possessed in the initial English translation, Dostoyevsky scholars and later translations favour the titles The Devils or Demons. An extremely political book, Demons is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. As the revolutionary democrats begin to rise in Russia, different ideologies begin to collide. Dostoyevsky casts a critical eye on both the radical idealists, portraying their ideas and ideological foundation as demonic, and the conservative establishment's ineptitude in dealing with those ideas and their social consequences. This form of ...

Although titled The Possessed in the initial English translation, Dostoyevsky scholars and later translations favour the titles The Devils or Demons. An extremely political book, Demons is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. As the revolutionary democrats begin to rise in Russia, different ideologies begin to collide. Dostoyevsky casts a critical eye on both the radical idealists, portraying their ideas and ideological foundation as demonic, and the conservative establishment's ineptitude in dealing with those ideas and their social consequences. This form of ...