Dostoevsky is indeed one of the great conservative novelists.
Those failed European revolutionaries are known as ‘48ers.
A lot of them fled to America where they played a big part in the formation of the Republican Party. Abe Lincoln even purchased a 48er German language newspaper in order to gain their support in his bid for the Republican nomination. ‘48er Karl Marx was a cheerleader for the war that his American comrades helped set in motion.