Harvest on the Don

In Harvest On the Don, Mikhail Sholokhov continues the dramatic story of the impact of revolution on the people of his native Russia. In And Quiet Flows the Don and The Don Flows Home to the Sea, Sholokhov tells of the violent and tumultuous days of the revolution and the civil war.

In this novel we see the same Don village, Gremyachy Log, whose people have lived for generations according to medieval ritual, torn from the ancient ways. Gremyachy Log has come Davidov, representative of the Party's drive to revolutionize village agriculture. The peasants see a vision of a better life in the plans of this man. Yet to-the-death opposition lurks just beneath the surface.

From back cover:

Mikhail Sholokhov's Harvest On the Don is a dramatic novel of social revolution and its impact on the dynamic Cossacks, the fiercely individualistic peasants of the Don country. Told with the unmistakable genius of Soviet Russia's foremost living writer, this is a story of treachery, bravery, passion, and bawdy comedy - a turbulent canvas of a vigorous people enmeshed in a struggle to collectivize a village still feudal in its rituals and its agricultural methods. 

Author: Mikhail Sholokhov

Publisher: Putnam

Released Date: 1960