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I share a lot of Caleb's thoughts on this one. I actually quite like Razumov as a character, only I wish Conrad had stopped at Razumov's exit from the room of revolutionaries after his confession with NN and his henchmen in tow, maybe leaving some doubt as to his end - being crushed by the tram and destined to Tekla's care was too forced and symbolic for my taste.
I found the first part engaging, but really had to plod through the second part the characters too grotesque, the dialogues too disjointed to draw me into the novel.
I did like the perspective offered by Razumov - as Caleb wrote, he was doomed from the moment Haldin stepped in his rooms, and in that kind of political climate, you simply could not sit on the sidelines. In some respect I think this novel has not aged well: the world is much closer, and the whole premise of western eyes contemplating the inscrutable Russian society applies surely much less, if at all, to the sensibility of any contemporary Western European. In addition, many of the sex stereotypes, though well meant, sound quite tired.
All this said, I did enjoy it, and I enjoyed the discussion so far even more!
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