Virgin Soil (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781544079189)

VIRGIN SOIL by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) is his last and longest novel. In it he finally says everything yet unsaid on the subject of social change, idealism and yet futility of revolutions, serfs and peasants, and the upper classes. The hero, Nezhdanov -- the disillusioned young son of a nobleman -- and the Populist movement are young idealists working to bridge the gap between the common people and the nobility, and through them Turgenev works out his own troubled thoughts about social reform and tradition, vitality and stagnation. The ideas of gradual reform shown here are eventually to be supplanted by the extremism of the Russian Revolution -- but that is yet to come.

Author: R. S. Townsend, Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich
ISBN-10: 1544079184
ISBN-13: 9781544079189
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2017
Pages: 282
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.59d