Word: tourguenev
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...socialistic movement, which, of all political events of the nineteenth century is most closely connected with the French Revolution of 1848, Professor Milyoukov explained the theories and influence of three great leaders of that period--Herzen, the powerful writer and deep thinker, his impulsive friend Bakoonin, and the novelist Tourguenev. Herzen, an aristocrat by birth, but later a "repentant nobleman," ashamed of his own high position, maintained the attitude of the early nihilists. He sympathized with those independents who could not take for their own the worn out moralities, laws, customs and traditions of a long-established society...
...Tourguenev's ideas were a little more radical, and he expressed them more openly, when, in speaking of one of his greatest novels, he said that it indicated the struggle between tame, well-fostered, domestic animals, and the gray, half-starved wolves of the country. He referred to the struggle of democracy and aristocracy...
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