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The article discusses how Fyodor Dostoyevsky foresaw the rise of totalitarian states through his novels depicting characters who justified murder in the name of ideology. As a young man in Russia, Dostoyevsky was arrested, sentenced to death, and subjected to a mock execution before having his sentence commuted to hard labor in Siberia. This profoundly altered his views and made him distrustful of progressive ideology. His novel Demons criticized the "nihilist" ideas prevalent in Russian intellectual circle

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