Word: shigalov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, a figure of universal execration, he passed into history and literature. In Dostoevsky's The Possessed, Nechaev appears as the evil theoretician Shigalov and as a model for Verkhovensky, coldblooded manipulator of idealists. Nechaev and his dupes are portrayed as the dreadful Nihilist crew who were the progenitors of Bolshevism...
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