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When studying Russia's struggle to modernize during the nineteenth century, it is imperative that one reads the book Fathers and Sons. This book gives an in depth look at the dramatic intellectual changes that took place from one generation to the next while Russia was trying to usher in a new system and do way with feudalism. Feudalism produced a lazy non industrious nobility class that was not concerned with change or moving Russia forward. As feudalism was coming to a close, intellects became more prevalent in Russia. With these intellects came many new and varying ideologies that broke away from the traditional ideologies of the old days and was a great source of animosity between the older generation and young intellects on the eve of the emancipation of the serfs and shortly after as well. Reading Fathers and Sons, Turgenev welcomes the intellects breakdown of the Russian Table of Ranks and increase in knowledge for the betterment of Russia, but also wishes to maintain a tradition simplicity, happiness, and emotional expression while denouncing radicals and reactionaries. In a sense he stresses moderate conglomeration of new and old ideas.
By the time of the emancipation, a class of intellectuals had developed that did not fit into the traditional Russian social structure. This group was known as the intelligentsia, which produced a wide range of intellectual positions. Often these positions clashed with the older generation's views of the world. In Fathers and Sons, Turgenev represents various intellectual positions of both the old and later generations by individual characters. In order to reveal the true tension and exchange of ideas that Turgenev is trying to explain between the traditional views and progressive views in Russia at this time, an in depth analysis of each major character is needed before the true clash can be understood.
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