Societal Rehabilitation Fyodor Dostoyevsky's work in Crime and Punishment can be cited as largely autobiographical. ... Dostoyevsky uses his novel Crime and Punishment to call for this return to traditional Russian values. ... After years of revolutionary action the new, conservative Dostoyevsky, the Dostoyevsky who wrote Crime and Punishment, endorsed the latter faction. ... Crime and Punishment's central character, Raskolnikov, is a Western sympathist who has an awakening similar to Dostoyevsky's. ... He begins to appreciate the simplicities of life and Dostoyev...

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