-What I am writing now is a tendentious thing, - Dostoyevsky wrote to a friend in connection with his first outline for The Devils. -I feel like saying everything as passionately as possible. (Let the nihilists and the Westerners scream that I am reactionary!) To hell with them. I shall say everything to the last word.- As Dostoyevsky predicted, The Devils, or The Possessed, was indeed denounced by radical critics as the work of a reactionary renegade. But radicals aside, it enjoyed great success both for its literary power and for its explicit and provocative politics; and for its story of Russian terrorists plotting violence and destruction, only to murder one of their own number. -Stavrogin's Confession-, the section omitted when the novel first appeared, is included as an appendix to this volume.