Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.
- ISBN10 0679734511
- ISBN13 9780679734512
- Publish Date 1 August 1995 (first published 9 August 1994)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Vintage Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 768
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780679734512