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A Writer’s Diary prints antisemitic civic passages in the 1870s

Dnevnik pisatelya, especially in the mid-1870s numbers (including 1876–77), prints passages on Jews as a civic-economic problem in the author’s conservative-national voice. In the causal graph this event weakens Protection of Minority Rights, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.

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Dnevnik pisatelya, especially in the mid-1870s numbers (including 1876–77), prints passages on Jews as a civic-economic problem in the author’s conservative-national voice. It is not Karamazov and not the Pushkin speech. This catalog does not invent extra epithets beyond the public Diary.

Context

Rights path: a famous monthly teaching hostility to a minority. Shared with the magazine’s readers. Mixed: the same Diary contains other civic essays. Those essays do not rebate these pages. Later Soviet or nationalist uses are reception.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Why it matters

It is not a unique pogrom table attached here. Sourced, not slogan.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Diary antisemitism is not the Pushkin speech and not a later film. Mixed effects of A Writer’s Diary prints antisemitic civic passages in the 1870s are separate paths.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.36 · verified

    Named author-editor of A Writer’s Diary. The monthly was his civic pulpit. Direct on the printed passages.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactA Writer’s Diary prints antisemitic civic passages in the 1870s
    2. weakensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 1 January 1877 · verified

    • Having a say in government

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Worse

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Worse

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Fyodor DostoyevskyEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.State Museum of the History of Russian Literature (Goslitmuz)Vladimir Dahl State Literary Museum · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky (opens in a new tab) independently treats the later journalism. Goslitmuz at https://www.goslitmuz.ru/ (opens in a new tab) is the official literary-museum neighbourhood of the Diary. Pushkin House at https://pushkinskijdom.ru/ (opens in a new tab) is the academic neighbourhood.

Established: antisemitic civic passages in the 1870s Diary. Not established: a unique circulation-times-harm coefficient. Distinct from Karamazov. Writer’s Diary 1876–77 cluster, civic Jewish question as hostility, sourced pages, not the 1880 hall. Official https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky (opens in a new tab) is not independent https://www.goslitmuz.ru/ (opens in a new tab).

Shared responsibility is part of A Writer’s Diary prints antisemitic civic passages in the 1870s. Naming Fyodor Dostoyevsky does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1877-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorFyodor Dostoyevsky
  2. contributed toFactA Writer’s Diary prints antisemitic civic passages in the 1870s
  3. weakensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). A Writer’s Diary prints antisemitic civic passages in the 1870s. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/dost-diary-antisemitism

https://factrail.ai/facts/dost-diary-antisemitism

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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