Отцы и дети

The young nihilist Bazarov comes home from university with his admiring friend Arkady and clashes with Arkady's genteel uncle over everything the old order holds dear. Turgenev's novel of 1862 gave the world the word nihilist and set a generation of Russian thinkers against their elders. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.