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Which author of 'Fathers and Sons' popularised the term 'nihilist' to describe the radical, anti-traditional youth of the 1860s?

Answer: Ivan Turgenev — Ivan Turgenev's 1862 novel 'Fathers and Sons' introduced the character Bazarov, whose rejection of all authority and convention captured the generational conflict of the era.

Ivan Turgenev's 1862 novel 'Fathers and Sons' introduced the character Bazarov, whose rejection of all authority and convention captured the generational conflict of the era.

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