44 SOCIAL SCIENTlSt of property : the shores of the Rheine, land in Africa, China and in the Balkan Peninsula.27 If Dostoevsky was urging the government to conquer Asia, Tolstoy was decrying the heinous crime being committed by the invasion of China in 1906 by eight countries (England, France, USA, Russia, Japan, Austro-Hungary, Germany, Italy.) Tolstoy's pain for the oppressed colonial nations and his sympathies with their struggle was not shared by Dostoevsky. And for this reason one can say that if Tolstoy was successful in overcoming the prevalent Orientalist approach of his times DcAtoevsky turned a prey to "Oriental Phantoms". The paper was presented at the Sixth International Dostoevsky symposium in August 1986. Nottingham University, U.K. 1. P.M. Dostoevskii, Dnevnik pisatelya za 1877 god, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, Nauka, Leningrad, Vol. 25, pp. 122-123. 2. Ibid., p. 412. 3. Edward W. Said, Orientalism, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1978, p. 25. 4. JW..P.59. 5. Ibid., p. 109. 6. Voltaire : "One Latin and one Greek priest informed that Mohammed II allowed the whole of Constantinopol to be ransacked, that he personally broke th? image of Jesus Christ and converted all the churches into Mosques. In order to meke the conqueror seem even more repulsive they added that the 5'ultan . . . beheaded his mistress and ordered the stomachs of fourteen of his pashas to be slit open in order to ascertain which one of them had eaten a water— melon. Hundreds of historians are repeating these pathetic untruths. Turn to the Turkish chronicles which merit trust. . . and you wili see how ridiculous are all these fairy tales" In : F. Ya. Priima, Russkaya literatura na Zapade. Nauka, Lenin-grad, 1970, p. 27. 7. Philip K. Hitti quotes Arabic sources on the Crusades and their attack on Jerusalem in 1099. "The besiegers stormed the city and perpetrated an indiscriminate massacre involving all ages and both sexes. 'Heaps of heads and hands and feet were to be seen throughout the streets and squares of the city" (Agiles, p. 659) In the book : Philip K. Hitti. History of the Arabs. Macmillan, 1985. p. 639. 8. Edward W. Said. op. cit. p. 8. 9. V.G. Belinskii. Retsenzii i zametki, yanvar'—mart 1844. Nal'i Damayanti. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, Akademii Nauk, Moscow 1955, vol. 8. p. 113. 10. Ibid. P. 113. 11. Ibid. 12. Dobrolyubov attempts an objective appraisal of the reasons for the, 1157 revolt in India but because his thinking is conditioned along European lines and most of bis source material is French, he falls a prey to oriental attitudes. "India has not changed since the time of Alexander . . ." (P. 9) He praises English enlighte-ment and its effortes to ducate the masses who, by their very nature are "lazy." Indians are not ready for English humaneness nor for adopting Christianity etc. In : N.A. Dobrolyubov. Vzglyad na istoriyu i sovremennoe sostoyanie ost-Indii. Sobranie sochinenii. Khudozhestvennaya literatura- Moscow, 1962, vol. 2. This concept of the lazy Oriental is once again repeated in Dobrolyubov's article. Zhizn' Magometa. Ibid.