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Mikhail Sholokhov

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The Resume

    (May 24, 1905-February 21, 1984)
    Born in Veshenskaya, Russian Federation
    Wrote 'And Quiet Flows the Don' (1926-40), 'Virgin Soil Upturned' (1932-60) and 'Fate of a Man' (1957)
    Won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1965)

Why he might be annoying:

    He dropped out of high school to join the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
    He was a hardline Communist who denounced dissident writers and supported the rehabilitation of Stalin's reputation.
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn accused him of plagiarizing 'And Quiet Flows the Don' from a Cossack author who had died in 1920.
    The New York Times described his post-'And Quiet Flows the Don' works as 'spectacularly mediocre.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    Despite his Communist views, 'And Quiet Flows the Don' treats the anti-Communist Cossacks sympathetically.
    He wrote to Stalin to complain about mass arrests (1938).
    He served as a war correspondent during the Battle of Stalingrad and Siege of Leningrad in WWII.
    The combination of statistical analysis of the text (1984) and the rediscovery of his original manuscript (1999) conclusively proved his authorship of 'And Quiet Flows the Don.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 24 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 108 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 15 Votes: 73.33% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 20 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 54 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 14 Votes: 64.29% Annoying