The materialistic literary mentality of the 1950’s did not consider the works of art as they exist in themselves but as tools of education in the process of forming minds. In Hungary from the works of Dostoevsky only those were issued which could be accepted by the communist leadership, of which the most significant was the novel Crime and Punishment. Generally speaking certain works of Dostoevsky were considered preposterous, particularly Notes from Underground, Brothers Karamazov, but mostly The Adolescent, A Writer’s Diary, Demons and The Double. Dostoevsky was considered dangerous as he was seen as the tool of deception which is intensified by the effectiveness and style of his “visualization power”. The other reason for opposing the works of Dostoevsky was that at that time he was very popular according to the value judgments of the “civic” Western European literary. In the West they saw the great mystic in him, who as the philosopher of suffering and humility offered reconciliation instead of revolution. In the Hungarian postscripts written in the fifties the most commonly expressed criticism against Dostoevsky was his anti-revolutionary thinking but his realism was recognized as his social representation could be used for demonstrating the negative nature of capitalist society.