Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (ru: Михаил Александрович Шолохов) (May 24 , 1905 (Old Style May 11 ) - February 21 , 1984 ) was a Russian novelist. He won the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature for his novels and stories about the fates of Cossacks of southern Russia during the World War I and Russian Civil Warin the book Tales of the Don and the novel And Quiet Flows the Don Stalin Prize ). Virgin Soil Upturned collectivization in cossack lands from the point of view of communist ideology (earned Lenin Prize ). The unfinished novel They Fought for Their Country is about the Great Patriotic War .
CPSU since 1932, member of the CPSU Central Committee since 1961, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1939, member of the USSR Supreme Soviet , twice Hero of Socialist Labor.
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Донские рассказы (Tales of the Don, 1926)Лазоревая степь Тихий Дон (And Quiet Flows the Don ; 4 volumes, 1928-1940)Они сражались за родину (They Fought for Their Country, printed by chapters, 1943-1969)Поднятая целина (Virgin Soil Upturned , 2 volumes, 1932, 1960)Судьба человека (The Fate of a Man, 1957)
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Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (803 words)
Sholokhov was born in the Kamenskaya region of Russia, in the "land of the Cossacks" - the Kruzhlinin hamlet, part of stanitsa Veshenskaya, the former Region of the Don Cossack Army. Sholokhov's mother came from Ukrainian peasant stock and was the widow of a Cossack . Sholokhov joined the CPSU in 1932, and in 1937 he was elected to the Supreme Soviet.
Sholokhov Mikhail Aleksandrovich - Search Results - MSN Encarta (148 words)
Sholokhov , Mikhail Aleksandrovich (1905-84), Soviet novelist and Nobel laureate, born in Veshenskaya, Russia, a village on the lower Don River. Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich (1814-76), Russian revolutionist and anarchist. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin was born near Moscow, of an...
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