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Whenthe young university graduate Arkady and his mentor, thenihilist Bazarov, leave St. Petersburg to visit their agingparents in the provinces, the conflict that ensues fromthe generations' clashing views of the world-the youths'radicalism and the parents' liberalism-is both representativeof nineteenth-century Russia and recognizably contemporary. At the time of its publication in 1862, thebook aroused indignation in critics who felt betrayed byTurgenev's refusal to let his novel serve a single ideology; it also received a spirited defense by those who sawin his diffuse sympathies a greater service to art and tohumanity. 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