About the author:
Galina N. Vorontsova, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3546-0472
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Abstract:
The article analyzes the creative history of M.A. Sholokhov’s novel And Quiet Flows the Don as regards its socio-political context, being focused on the relations — both external and internal — between the fourth book of the novel and that socio-political situation which took place in the Soviet Union during the second half of the 1930s. Specifically, attention is paid to the For the Soviet Cossacks campaign, which received a wide resonance within the country and was reflected in the epic novel.