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Part One: Russian Nihilists: The Gender-bending Subculture that Blew Up the Tsar

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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Fathers and Sons

Fathers and Sons is a book about generation gap. It's basically like Millennials versus Boomers, the book actually really tracks. And so I'm excited about this read whether or not it's true. Just interject some hope into the conversation. Okay. So in this book, there's a young Nihilus named Bazarov and he calls himself a Nihilus. And it's the first time that that's where the name comes from,. He's not the main character even, but he's the one that the author clearly is paying the most attention to. In fact, Turganev, for the rest of his life, kept a diary as if he was Bazar

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