And Quiet Does Not Flow the Don: Statistical Analysis of a Quarrel between Nobel Laureates
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The Nobel Prize in literature for 1965 was awarded to Mikhail Sholokhov (1905–1984), for the epic novel about Cossack life and the birth of a new Soviet society (And Quiet Flows the Don, or The Quiet Don, in different translations). Sholokhov has been compared to Tolstoı̆ and was at least a generation ago called ‘the greatest of our writers’ in the Soviet Union. In Russia alone, his books have been published in more than a thousand editions, selling in total more than 60 million copies. He was an elected member of the USSR Supreme Soviet, the USSR Academy of Sciences, and the CPSU Central Committee. But in the autumn of 1974 an article was published in Paris,
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