Analyzing the content of the parable of the Grand 5 Inquisitor from Fyodor M. Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov allows us to identify the root
ideas and consequences of a program for reorganizing society aimed solely at transforming the external material environment. Historical experience has confirmed Dostoevsky’s warning that implementing this kind of program requires permanent violence against nature, society, and man. The temptation of the
powerful by their own power can be countered by a program for forming social harmony.