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Fathers and Sons, a novel (1862) by Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. It deals with the conflicting attitudes toward social change (particularly the emancipation of serfs) among Russia's younger radical intelligentsia, represented by the novel's nihilistic protagonist, Bazarov, and the older liberal gentry, to which Turgenev himself belonged. The novel was seen as Turgenev's acknowledgment that Russia's future was now in the hands of a new generation.
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