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A 5 page overview of Turgenev’s portrayal of nihilism in the novel “Fathers and Sons”. Turgenev actually invented the term nihilist in this novel and uses the young medical student Evgenii Bazarov to exemplify it. The novel is neither an attack or defense on Bazarov. Instead it is an analysis of the sometimes circular thought paths which characterized the time. No additional sources are listed.
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Ivan Turgenevs "Fathers and Sons" is an interesting portrayal of the nihilist in the years following the Crimean War. This war pitted
the Italian Kingdom of Sardinia, France, England, and Turkey against Russia and ultimately led to Russian defeat. The result was the Treaty of Paris in 1856 and the ultimate
the emancipation of the Serfs. An underlying political movement at the time was that of positivism, the school of philosophy which relies heavily on the methodology and precision of
mathematics and the natural sciences to answer questions. Indeed, the members of this philosophical movement simply rejected any institution or belief, regardless of its credentials and societal position, without
direct and logical proof of its validity. This was a period of numerous social ills, a period which was the subject of numerous writers, one of the most prominent
of which was Ivan Turgenev. In many respects Turgenevs "Fathers and Sons" was a call for the intelligensia of the day to reject the cold scientific calculation which characterized
the movement and to at least partially reembrace romanticism. Known for his realistic portrayals of both the peasantry and their oppressors, Turgenev invented
the very word "nihilist" in "Fathers and Sons". He writes: "A nihilist is
a man who does not bow to any authorities, who does not take any principle on trust, no matter with what respect that principle is surrounded" (Turgenev 7).
Although the term has evolved since its initial creation to encapsulate the principles of Communism,
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