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Ivan Turgenev's novel 'Fathers and son' portrays the split between the liberal Russian parents and the new 'nihilist' generation who's embrace of socialism eventually led to the Bolshevik Revolution. What caused the Russian youth to be disillusioned with liberalism and become socialist instead?

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