Dostoevsky"s Problem. Conversation with the Devil

F.M. Dostoevsky put the problem for which modern civilization has not yet managed to answer. The solution to this problem ascending to "eternal issues" (immortality, meaning of the world, Absolute), believed MIH. Lifshitz, can give Marxism. The book presents fragments and sketches not written by Lifshitz book about Dostoevsky, including his unfinished pamphlet "conversation with a hell" and polemical notes about M. Bakhtin. In the dispute with domestic "young-lived" 60s. Lifshitz shows that their "creative Marxism" was a return to vulgar ideas about the work of Dostoevsky 20-50 kh (V. Yermilova, V. Kirpotin, Ya. Elsberg) Comments L.N. Talkovich talk about the history of the creation of pamphlet "conversation with the hell", and the comments V.G. Arslanov put a spore of Lifshits with the Soviet intelligentsia in the context of modern political events - rallies "for fair elections". For students and teachers of humanitarian specialties of universities and all interested in the history and culture of Russia