Word: czarism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Master Is the Master." Unlike his contemporaries, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev was a "Westerner," and he he thought Russia should copy the ways of of the industrialized West. Many of his novels, e.g., Fathers and Sons, Rudin, revolve around the political experiences of young Russian intellectuals discontented with czarism - and with the melancholy aftermaths of their disappointed loves. But his first prose work, and his best, lives on as a radiant example of pastoral charm that often overshadows Turgenev's concern for social injustice...