 From then on, "Crime and Punishment" is referred to as a novel.In the complete edition of Dostoevsky's writings published in the Soviet Union, the editors reassembled the writer's notebooks for "Crime and Punishment" in a sequence roughly corresponding to the various stages of composition.Because of these labors, there is now a fragmentary working draft of the story, or novella, as initially conceived, as well as two other versions of the text.