15598 Fyodor Dostoevsky http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51G7ZGP8TZL._SX80_.jpg 9 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. 100