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Virgin Soil Upturned, Book 1
Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-1984), a Lenin and Nobel Prize winner, was one of the world's major modern writers. His novel Virgin Soil Upturned, dealing with the collectivization of countryside in the USSR, has been translated into 75 languages and published in over thirty million copies. In 1932 the journal Novy Mir Published the first part of the novel, and that same year Sholokhov announced that he had begun work on the second part. Due to war-time disruptions, including destruction of the near-complete manuscript during World War II, the second part did not appear until 1960.
334 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1932
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230books480followersMikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people."
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September 6, 2017
Virgin Soil Upturned, Book 1, Mikhail Sholokhov
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (May 24 [O.S. May 11] 1905 � February 21, 1984) was a Soviet/Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization, primarily the famous And Quiet Flows the Don.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: چهاردهم ماه جولای سال 1970 میلادی
عنوان: زمین نوآباد - جلد یکم؛ نویسنده: میخائیل شولوخف؛ مترجم: م.ا. به آذین (محمود اعتمادزاده)؛ تهران، نیل، 1348، در دو جلد؛ چاپ دوم 1357؛ چاپ دیگر: تهران، سرو، 1363؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان روسیه قرن 20 م
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (May 24 [O.S. May 11] 1905 � February 21, 1984) was a Soviet/Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization, primarily the famous And Quiet Flows the Don.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: چهاردهم ماه جولای سال 1970 میلادی
عنوان: زمین نوآباد - جلد یکم؛ نویسنده: میخائیل شولوخف؛ مترجم: م.ا. به آذین (محمود اعتمادزاده)؛ تهران، نیل، 1348، در دو جلد؛ چاپ دوم 1357؛ چاپ دیگر: تهران، سرو، 1363؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان روسیه قرن 20 م
ا. شربیانی
April 26, 2020
آخرای جلد یک تازه داستان به جنب و جوش افتاد،باید دید جلد دو چه خبره...
March 25, 2015
Have just read this again after a gap of thirty-six years.
July 7, 2020
از خوندن جلد اول بسیار لذت بردم و عاشق شخصیت باباشچوکار شدم. شخصیت پردازی ها فوق العادس.
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April 22, 2016
There are moments of great lyrical beauty here in the descriptions of nature and in places where the old world of the Cossacks peeks through the party rhetoric, as in the beginning of the affair between Andrei and Marina. In these parts of the book I could feel the presence of the author of Quiet Flows the Don. But the rest of the book is the poorly written rant of a party hack. It almost feels like there were two authors. Although the story does show some of the ups and downs in the process of collectivization, and even sometimes displays a bit of sympathy for the farmers who resisted, it is largely a whitewash of a brutal and misguided process where the best farmers were branded as kulaks, had their property confiscated and were sent into exile, while the less successful were herded into collective farms and bullied into compliance. The result, predictably, was mass starvation and effective genocide that reduced the population of the Don Cossacks to half of the pre-WWI level by the time the drive for collectivization was over. None of this is even hinted at in this book that was written more than a decade after the disastrous results of collectivization were well known, at least to people at the top. In the book, the only Bolshevik who is guilty of any misbehavior is Makar Nalgunov who beats one middle peasant and imprisons three others overnight to force them to go along with the collectivization program; for this he is threatened with expulsion from the party as a left deviationist in the wake of Stalin's famous Dizzy With Success article that signaled a temporary retrenchment in collectivization. But all is forgiven and by the end he is readmitted to the party as a honored servant of the World Revolution. The only truth here is that most of Stalin's henchmen got theirs from their beloved leader not long after they finished dishing out a heaping helping of suffering to the rest of the country. So was Sholokhov a coward, a fool, a misguided apologist for a cause that he considered noble or a knowing servant of evil who willingly participated to ensure his own survival? Probably all of the above.
September 24, 2020
One of the best books I have read, which gave me an unforgettable insight into the soviet world.
April 7, 2015
I wanted to read more Sholokhov after "The Quiet Don". Unfortunately, "Virgin Soil Upturned" pales in comparison. It's not bad, it's just that the bar was set too high.
Anyway, this is fictional account of Soviet collectivization of a Cossack farm in the late 1920's. It's a bit more propaganda-ish than "The Quiet Don", but there is still a lot of content that I'm surprised passed Stalin's censors. The story itself is compelling enough that I'm going to jump right into Part Two.
Anyway, this is fictional account of Soviet collectivization of a Cossack farm in the late 1920's. It's a bit more propaganda-ish than "The Quiet Don", but there is still a lot of content that I'm surprised passed Stalin's censors. The story itself is compelling enough that I'm going to jump right into Part Two.
November 10, 2018
The downside of reading a book like this is I expect my next book to be at least closely as good as this one. A tough challenge for all those authors out there. Mikhail Sholokhov is no joke, he got a Noble !. Didn't feel like going though 900 pages even though the book was heavy to hold. Sholokhov's view on communism was brutally blunt. That's why he was even banned from Russia. Davydov is one of my favorite fictional characters now. He was misguided but such an inspiration for the youth.
October 8, 2014
This is a work of the social realist school which from our perspective means that it is totally devoid of any literary merit. However, it is the best account we have of the collectiviaztion process and the life inside the collectives. As an historical document it is of enormous value.
November 28, 2007
Superb depiction. All should know what had actually happened during collectivisation days in Soviet Union.
January 26, 2010
کتاب های شولوخف رو همیشه می تونی حس کنی با تمام وجود ، خیلی عالی بود
September 25, 2015
دفاعی تمام قد از سیاست اشتراکی شدن مزارع و ایجاد کالخوزها در رژیم کمونیستی شوروی و دوره استالین
March 6, 2021
Nowhere near as good as Quiet Flows the Don. Almost makes you believe the conspiracy theory that he didn't write it.
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April 2, 2020Geçen günlerde yitirdiğimiz Değerli Çevirmen Nihal Yeğinobalı'nın yıllar önce çevirdiği "Uyandırılmış Toprak" romanı, Sovyet Yazar Şolohov'un Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü kazanmasında etkili olmuş çok önemli bir roman! Şolohov, "Uyandırılmış Toprak" romanında, Sovyet Rusya ve Sovyet Ukrayna ile ilgili "benzersiz" öyküler anlatıyor. Sovyetler Birliği'nin kuruluşu ardından, 1924 yılında, Sovyet Lider Lenin'in vefatı ile, Sovyet Liderliği'ni Stalin devralmıştı, Stalin'in başlattığı bir çok reformlardan biri de, "toprakların kamulaştırılması" idi, bu yönde "Kolhoz"lar, "Sovhoz"lar ("üretme çiftlikleri") kuruldu, "kooperatifçilik" yaygınlaştırıldı. Şolohov, "Uyandırılmış Toprak" romanını Sovyetler'de "toprakların kamulaştırılması" yıllarından öykülerle kurguluyor, Sovyet Komünist Partisi Müfettişi David'in Sovyet kasabalarında, köylerinde yaptığı araştırmalar, romanı oluşturuyor. Şolohov'un "Uyandırılmış Toprak" romanı, Sovyetler Birliği'nin kuruluş yıllarından İkinci Dünya Savaşı yıllarına "kırsal tarihi"ni, "köylü tarihi"ni, Sovyet Komünist Partisi tarihini anlamak için mutlaka okunması gereken kitaplardan biridir, Türkçe'de "benzersiz" bir roman "Uyandırılmış Toprak", Değerli Çevirmen Nihal Yeğinobalı'nın da bir "hatıra"sı!
December 17, 2019
کتاب زندگی مردم روسیه رو در سالهای اولیه انقلاب به تصویر میکشه شولوخوف استاد تصویر سازی با کلماته ولی به گمانم تمام قدرتش رو در دن آرام خرج کرده بوده ویا اینکه روسیه تزاری تصویر پر نقش تری از شووروی کمونیست در ذهن نویسنده داشته
February 11, 2022
Trejetas, ir ne daugiau. Net anais laikais, kai nebuvome išlepinti daugybe knygų, šis romanas pasirodė kur kas silpnesnis už "Tykųjį Doną".
May 11, 2022
Tad vis dėlto kaip ten buvo, kai tuos kolūkius steigė? Ši knyga padės sužinoti.
December 30, 2015
A powerful piece of Russian literature (volume 1 of a series), written by a committed communist, but one with his eyes open. The story unfolds in a little Don Cossack village in the early Stalin years where voluntary collectivization is being established (Part of the NEP). New versus old ways are sensitively described. Sholokhov passionately believes in the new order, but is repectful of those who still cling to the old ways ... except the Kulaks! Particularly beautiful are the beginnings of several chapters where the changing of the seasons are lovingly described. The sky. The earth. The mists. The smells. The characters are real people, not proto-people, and the story is not one-dimensional. Sholokhov, while a man of the people is also a man of the land.
August 24, 2021
یاکوف لوکیچ که در اجرای دستور پولووتسف بیش ازاندازه خوش خدمتی کرده بود، چیزی نماند که بر سر این کار سمت کارپردازی کالخوز را از دست بدهد. «با این تدبیر ورزوهاشان یخ می زنند! آنها، بس که احمق اند، باور می کنند که تو این کار را برای نظافت می کنی. ولی اسب ها را خوب مواظبشان باش. طوری که اگر لازم بود هم امروز آماده خدمت جنگی باشند.» شب پیش پولووتسف با وی چنین گفته بود. یاکوف لوکیچ هم گفته او را به اجرا درآورده بود.
September 29, 2018
ඉතාම ස්වභාවික ලෙ� දොන් ප්රදේශය� ග්රෙමියාච� ග්රාමයේ සමූහ ගොවිපලවල් ආරම්� කිරී� ගැ� කතාව ගලාගෙන යය�. පරිවර්තකයාගෙ මන� භාෂා හැසිරවීම නිසා කතාව ඉතාම හරවත්�. ගම� මිනිසුන්ගේ සැබෑ ජීවිකාව දු� සතුට අතරින් ගලායෑම මැනවින� නිරූපිතය. රුසියානු විප්ලව� පිළිබඳ සාධාරණව කතුවරය� අදහස� දක්ව� ඇත� අත� අප ග්රෙමියාච� ග්රාමයේ මිනිසුන් අත� තවත් එක� මිනිසෙක් බව� හැඟවෙන සේ පො� රචනා කර ඇත.
May 5, 2019
I read this during a 3-year Russian reading kick I was on. It was pretty good. My Russian pen pal in Siberia told me that Sholokhov had been a mainstream (approved) Soviet writer and to keep that in mind. Still, it was worth reading from a historical perspective.
October 6, 2018
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