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Like many intellectuals of his day who challenged the power and rights of the Tzar, Dostoevsky was exiled to [[Siberia]].  This 10 year experience would frame his views of the world, and change his writings from those of a young naive intellectual to the questing, challenging author he became.  Despite his revolutionary credentials, he was viewed with suspicion by the Soviet intelligentsia, who considered him a defeatist.

Like many intellectuals of his day who challenged the power and rights of the Tzar, Dostoevsky was exiled to [[Siberia]].  This 10 year experience would frame his views of the world, and change his writings from those of a young naive intellectual to the questing, challenging author he became.  Despite his revolutionary credentials, he was viewed with suspicion by the Soviet intelligentsia, who considered him a defeatist.

His final work before his death, ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'' is considered one of the greatest novels ever written, even from distant secularists like [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] and [[Sigmund Freud]]. In it,  the character Ivan Karamazov states, "If there is [[Atheism|no immortality]], there is no virtue." Due mostly to this novel and ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'', Dostoevsky is often considered one of the greatest defenders of theism in all of literature. However, an alternative view exists of him as a nihilist.

His final work before his death, ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'' is considered one of the greatest novels ever written, even from distant secularists like [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] and [[Sigmund Freud]]. In it,  the character Ivan Karamazov states, "If there is [[Atheism|no immortality]], there is no virtue." Due mostly to this novel and ''Crime and Punishment'', Dostoevsky is often considered one of the greatest defenders of theism in all of literature. However, an alternative view exists of him as a nihilist.

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