Publisher's Synopsis
The Possessed (In Russian: Бесы, tr. Besy), also translated as The Devils or Demons, is an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. For an explanation of the marked difference in the English-language title, please see the section "Note on the title" below.An extremely political book, The Possessed is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century.
