Our fourth Great Political Fiction is Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (1862), the definitive novel about the politics – and emotions – of intergenerational conflict. How did Turgenev manage to write a wistful novel about nihilism? What made Russian politics in the early 1860s so chock-full of frustration? Why did Turgenev’s book infuriate his contemporaries – including Dostoyevsky? Tomorrow: George Eliot’s Middlemarch Parts 1 &amp; 2 Find out more about Past Present Future on our new website <a href="http://www.ppfideas.com">www.ppfideas.com</a> where you can also join PPF+ to get bonus episodes and ad-free listening. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

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