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I started reading Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It's about the spread of new ideas, namely nihilism, in the mid-1800s Russia. As such, the topic reminds me of Ivan Turgenev's Fathers And Sons, which I remember liking. This is a hefty tome, so it'll take me a while to get through it.