During the last year's final week and the new year's first week, we saw a number of new poster children born: Munir Awad, Israel Shamir, Jared Lee Loughner, Taimour Abdulwahab. Despite different political affiliations and practices, there are some interesting similarities between the recent months’ most discussed political activists. Similarities that bring to mind some of the main characters in Fyodor Dostoevsky's great novel The PossessedI think this is the most common title for this book in English - please check.I think this is the most common title for this book in English - please check..

Where we follow a group of revolutionaries in 1860s’ Russia, led by Piotr Verchovjenskij and Nikolai Stavrogin. In Dostoyevsky, the revolution’s charismatic and subversive leadership moves freely between different continents and countries. They seek compulsively those places where subversive ideas are formulated and taught. They are dr...