Sholokhov
Americannoun
noun
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He lauded such Russian novelists as Aleksey Tolstoy and Mikhail Sholokhov for what he called their pro-revolutionary writings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
For decades, Sholokhov produced nothing of note and, at times, seemed incapable of writing at all.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2019
Sholokhov met Stalin in 1931 as he was dealing with critics and editors who questioned the ideological purity of the third volume, given its setting among counterrevolutionaries.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2019
He often quotes from Chinese classics, and in an interview with the Russian press last year he volunteered that he had read Krylov, Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Nekrasov, Chernyshevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Sholokhov.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2015
Reports that Sholokhov had plagiarized the novel were so widespread in 1929 that Pravda threatened to prosecute the "malicious slanderers."
From Time Magazine Archive
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