Continuing the book initiative from last month, perhaps it's time to find a new book of the month? Seeing as August is nearing its end, perhaps we should skip August and come with suggestions for September's book?
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I'll start by nominating "The possessed" by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
An extremely political book, The Possessed 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. Dostoevsky casts a critical eye on both the left-wing idealists, exposing their ideas and idealogical foundation as demonic, [1] and the conservative establishment's ineptitude in dealing with those ideas and their social consequences.
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The book has four primary ideological characters: Verkhovensky, Shatov, Stavrogin and Kirilov. Through their philosophies, Dostoevsky describes the political chaos arising in pre Communist Revolution Russia in the late 1800s.