ABSTRACT
The new 'nihilism', a term resurrected by Turgenev in his novel 'Fathers and Children', - was amazingly partisan. It was this weak but dangerous thinking, this emotional outburst of startling political immaturity, which most concerned Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky retained a great deal of respect for Chernyshevsky, that; "Chernyshevsky has started a series of articles about contemporary journalism". From 1860 - 63, the Dostoevskys' journal 'Vremya' reflected the amorphous eclecticism of the period. Dostoevsky's ideas about Western Europe may have been partially influenced by Herzen's 'Letters from Italy and France' and by the meeting between Herzen and Dostoevsky which took place during his brief visit to London in 1862. Dostoevsky feels that the European customs and attitudes were a superficial influence on Russians, but enough to drive a wedge between educated Russians and the common people. Vremya marked a new stage in Dostoevsky's development as an opponent of Westernism and a new level of Dostoevsky's hostility to the nihilists.
