Passionate and pround, Grigory Melekhov is the most memorable hero in soviet literature. He is at first attracted by the communists' promises of social justice, but soon repelled by their violent methods and finds himself embroiled in the Cossack campaign against them. His is a personal struggle in which loves and loyalties are tested to the full, but also a struggle which reflects the spirit of Russia as a whole during the years of revolution. Reflecting the mixed Cossack and peasant upbringing of Sholokhov himself, Quiet Flows The Don introduces a myriad of caracters in work is essential to an understanding of modern which is essential to an appreciation of Russia's great literary tradition.
- ISBN10 0460878905
- ISBN13 9780460878906
- Publish Date 4 August 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 July 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 1408
- Language English