Dostoevsky and the Cure of a Culture ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Dostoevsky and the Cure of a Culture ~ The Imaginative Conservative

In the few decades after Dostoevsky wrote “Demons,” revolution spread across Russia in a wave of chaos which has yet to end. All cultures and all eras face a similar trial. We can look at the America of our time with Dostoevsky’s eyes—with a similar worry and yet with a similar hope. Demons: A Novel in Three Parts by Fyodor Dostoevsky When a culture is sick, how can it be cured? If an entire people is possessed, how can they be freed? Is such a …