Turgenev's revolutionary views were not born in the heart of mother Russia. In his travels through Europe he had a chance to study the most prominent philosophers of that time, absorb their ideas, and later implement them in his literary works. "The streets of revolutionary Paris taught him the unpleasant rudiments of crowd psychology, and the logic of the class struggle. The reaction which followed the upheaval of 1848 intensified his disgust with the governments, the …
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…one to die and the other leave Russia forever. For a writer to lose respect of his countrymen can be as bad as death. One can say Turgenev suffered the same fate as Bazarov. Both tried to create something new and both failed, maybe it was the flaw of the writer, or maybe the society was just not ready for these two characters, one fictional and the other as real as any one of us.