Freitag, 25. September 2009

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25.09.2009 - Interpretation of dali48

Sholokhov (1905-1984) wrote to Stalin about the brutal mistreatment of collective farmers in 1933 - and complained about mass arrests in 1938 - This letter led to a treason case against the author - but he was spared and promoted as the leading figure of the soviet literary establishment. Stalin followed closely Sholokhov's literary career and influenced publication of his works... - Peter Seeger's famous song, 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone' - was inspired by a lullaby from the first volume, The Don Flows Home to the Sea. A Cossack woman sings: "And where are the reeds? The girls have pulled them up. / Where are the girls? - The girls have taken husbands. / Where are the Cossacks? - They've gone to the war!" ... - The reader learns nothing about the terrorism and famine of 1932-33! - During the 1933 famine Sholokhov himself saved 1000s of lives by persuading Stalin to send grain to the Upper Don region! ... - Most of the manuscripts were lost when the Germans occupied Veshenskaya - but in 1987 some 2000 pages were discovered and authenticated... - Quiet Flows the Don is Sholokhov's most controversial work and it has been alleged by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn among others - that much of the novel was plagiarized from the writer Fyodor Kryukov - a Cossack and anti-Bolshevik, who died in 1920 of typhoid fever... (M. Sholokhov, Other Ressources, PAC)


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