ABSTRACT In his final novel, Virgin Soil (1877), Turgenev takes up the theme of the particular kind of populism (Narodnichestvo) that swept across the European part of Russia in the 1860s and 70s. Critics on both ends of the political spectrum believed that Virgin Soil failed to truthfully depict the populist movement; however, the novel provides an important cultural commentary that heretofore has been overlooked. Turgenev explores the theme of fractured father-son relationships and masterfully exposes the nature of political dissent in Russia. He conceptualises Russian radical intelligentsia as a natural son of an enlightened patriarch, thus questioning the long-standing tradition of viewing the Russian tsar as a father to his people. While drawing on the scholarship of Stephen Lovell and other social historians who explore the problem of genealogical and generational self-identification, this study of Turgenev's work provides new legibilities of the family metaphor that lies at the core of Russian political discourse.

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切断脐带：Turgenev原始土壤中的父权制和家庭隐喻

摘要在他的最后一部小说《处女的土壤》（1877年）中，屠格涅夫以一种特殊的民粹主义（Narodnichestvo）为主题，这种民粹主义在1860年代和70年代席卷了俄罗斯的欧洲部分。政治界两端的批评者认为，维珍土壤未能如实描述民粹主义运动。然而，这本小说提供了重要的文化评论，而这一评论迄今为止被人们所忽视。屠格涅夫探讨了父子关系破裂的主题，并巧妙地揭示了俄罗斯政治异见的本质。他将俄罗斯激进的知识分子概念化为开明的族长的自然儿子，因此质疑将俄罗斯沙皇视为其人民父亲的悠久传统。