Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons covers the growing divide between two generations of 19th-century Russians: the conservative Slavophiles, who believed that Russian tradition should continue, and the young nihilists like Yevgeny Bazarov, who questioned preconceived ideas and the old order. Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons influenced many of the great Russian novelists to come, most obviously Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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