Quiet flows the Don
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Author), Robert Daglish (Translator), Brian Murphy (Editor)
Quiet Flows the Don is a panoramic view of ten years of Cossack life in the Don region of Russia. Set in the turbulent years of the First World War, the Revolution and the Civil War, it deals unblinkingly with the main questions confronting the War's Communist regime: how much ruthlessness can be practised in order to establish Soviet power? The Bolsheviks' harsh repression of the Cossacks - disastrous both morally and politically - leads to a mass rebellion, which succeeds in driving the Reds out of the Don territory but not before the Don loses almost half its population in bloody and merciless battle
Print Book, English, 1996
Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, 1996