Crime and Punishment (In Our Time)
1866 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the novel written by Dostoevsky and published in 1866, in which Raskolnikov, a struggling student, justifies his murder of two women, as his future is more valuable than their lives. He thinks himself superior, above the moral laws that apply to others. The police have little evidence against him but trust him to confess, once
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1866
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- British Raj (1858)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)