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Dr Sarah Hudspith of Leeds University on the literary fascination with Nihilism and political violence
Ivan Turgenev was the first of Russia's literary giants to feature a Nihilist as a character but Tolstoy and Dostoevsky shared his fascination with political extremists.
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