About the book: year / In Dostoevsky’s “Demons,” much of what our subsequent history revealed was guessed with frightening force. However, for many years it was customary to stigmatize and denounce a novel with the label “terry reaction” attached to it. L. Saraskina’s book talks about the historical, spiritual and artistic experience that contains Dostoevsky’s warning novel. The activities of the ideological heirs of Peter Verkhovensky and Chagalev can be traced in Russia in the 30s, in a number of other countries, and is studied based on the works of E. Zamyatin, I. Bunin, V. Korolenko, M. Voloshin, M. Gorky, A. Bely, J. Orwell, B. Mozhaev, the works of R. Tagore, Akutagawa Ryunosuke...