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Dostoevsky in London and Paris — the founding text of Russian anti-Western critique
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (1863) is Dostoevsky's account of his first European journey — his visit to London's Crystal Palace, the Paris bourgeoisie, and his argument that Western civilization's promises of freedom and brotherhood have been fulfilled as bourgeois capitalism.
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A Diary of a Writer
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The essential companion — the same political and cultural concerns in a fuller, more sustained form
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Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The essential companion — written immediately after; the Underground Man as the philosophical development of Winter Notes' argument
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The Possessed
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The essential mature companion — the political consequences of Western ideas in Russia
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The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
His final novel — the Grand Inquisitor scene is the full development of what Winter Notes begins philosophically
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My Past and Thoughts
by Alexander Herzen
The essential companion from the opposite perspective — the Russian Westernizer's memoir of Europe; the necessary contrast
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by Alexis de Tocqueville
The essential European companion in the tradition of the acute foreign observer of a different civilization
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A Confession
by Leo Tolstoy
The essential Tolstoyan companion — Tolstoy's own critique of Western secular culture from a Russian religious perspective
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by Fyodor Dostoevsky
His first great novel — the Western ideas Winter Notes criticizes are embodied in Raskolnikov's theory
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