Andrew R. MacAndrew

Based on a true event, in which a young revolutionary was murdered by his comrades, The Possessed provoked a storm of controversy for its harsh depiction of a ruthless band of Russian intellectuals, atheists, socialists, anarchists, and other radicals who attempt to incite the population of a small provincial town to revolt against the government. In contrast to Dostoevsky's savage portrait of these radicals and the violent ideas that have possessed...

A classic tale of a Russian businessman who, in an effort to get rich quick and marry an heiress, buys deceased serfs from their masters and thus appears to be a man of property and prosperity.