Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev’s 1862 masterpiece, Fathers and Sons, is a highly celebrated novel frequently studied under Uganda's UNEB A-Level Literature in English (Paper 1: Prose). Set on the brink of the 1861 emancipation of serfs in Imperial Russia, the novel captures a timeless universal conflict: the ideological, psychological, and emotional divide between generations. Turgenev famously introduced the term "nihilism" through this text to describe the radical youth who rejected all traditional values, authority, and social institutions.