Fyodor Dostoevsky is considered one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature. His works often explore human nature and the spiritual implications of human choices. His writings are prophetic because he accurately predicted how Russia’s revolutionaries would behave if they came to power. Dostoyevsky is best known for his long novels Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground, and The Idiot. These significant works are renowned novels that address timeless and timely issues in philosophy and politics.

Russian literature is known for wrestling with universal questions about the nature of good and evil, human freedom, moral responsibility, and political utopianism. This is because it was written under extreme conditions with a literary intensity that presents a confrontation of evil. Bulgakov’s writings give essential insight into the cultural impact of an atheistic mindset. In a society where the most excellent goods are not religion or transcendence but material possessions and creature comforts—the consequence is a base and stupid society where everyone looks out for themselves, and selfishness reigns through a narrow pursuit of personal gratification. This narrowness of ideas and shallow character are all the direct consequence of the belief that humans are just molecules without purpose or accountability to any ultimate authority and have no future beyond our time on earth.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested for criticizing Stalin and was sentenced to 8 years in the Russian labor camps, the Gulags. The experience of the gulags provided him with raw material for the books he wrote. His writings force people to think more deeply about their values, assumptions, and societies, and in 1970, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work on The Gulag Archipelago.