A presentation in 5 case studies

Gogol’s novel Taras Bulba furthered the Early Russian nationalism movement by providing it with a history

“Russian Land” “Russian Might” “Russian Soul”

Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons sparked a debate which allowed for the growth of the Russian radical tradition

“Turgenev… was ambivalent… [to] the manifestations of science and progress exemplified in his protagonist Bazarov”

Tolstoy wrote War and Peace, but more importantly he furthered the radical tradition through his dramatizations of the suffering of the lower class

In an Invitation to a Beheading Nabokov maintains the Russian dissenting spirit, even from Berlin by questioning the Soviet ideology

“You bear extraordinary resemblance to your mother. I myself have never had the chance of seeing her, but Rodrig Ivanovich kindly promised to show my her photograph”

Authored The Gulag Archipelago, essentially reviving large scale rebellion through literature within Russia

Chamberlin, Vernon A., and Jack Weiner. "Gados' Dona Perfecta and Turgenev's      Fathers and Sons: Two Interpretations of the Conflict of Generations."      PMLA 86, no. 1 (January 1971): 19-24.

Dragunoiu, Dana. "Vladimir Nabokov's 'Invitation to a Beheading' and the Russia Radical Tradition." Journal of Modern Literature 25, no. 1 (Fall 2001): 53-69.

Pozefsky, Peter. "Smoke as 'Strange and Sinister Commentary on Fathers and Sons': Dostoevskii, Pisarev and Turgenev on Nihilists and Their Representations." Russian review 54, no. 4 (October 1995): 571-586.

Rosefielde, Steven. "The First 'Great Leap Forward' Reconsidered: Lessons of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago." Slavic Review 39, no. 4 (December 1980): 559-587.

Tolstoy, Alexandra. "Tolstoy and the Russian peasant." Russian Review 19, no. 2 (April 1960): 150-156.

Yoon, Saera. "Transformation of a Ukrainian Cossack into a Russian Warrior: Gogol's 1842 'Taras Bulba.'" The Slavic and Eastern Eurpoean Journal 49, no. 3 (Fall 2005): 430-444.