In the azure steppe
В лазоревой степи
Three novellas based on M. Sholokhov's early stories about the first years of the formation of Soviet power on the Don. (1) “Koloverť”. Two Cossack brothers and their elderly father fight for the Bolsheviks, but when only Ignat and his father return to their White-held stanitsa, their third brother betrays them, sealing their fate by handing them over for execution. (2) “Chervotočina”. Idealistic Stepan joins the Komsomol against his wealthy Cossack family’s wishes, but when two oxen he lends to a poor neighbor vanish, his enraged father and brother beat both Stepan and the neighbor to death. (3) “Prodkomissar”. Commissar Ignat Bodiagin is charged with requisitioning grain for the Red Army, only to find his own father condemned for hoarding; he must preside over his execution and soon dies himself leading the resisting Cossacks away from the grain convoy.
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Viktor Shulgin
Yuri Smirnov
Lyubov Sokolova
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Valentina Berezutskaya
Yevgeni Gerasimov
Pavel Kormunin
Ivan Kosykh
Yuriy Nazarov
Nikolay Pogodin
Vladimir Kozel
Grigory Mikhaylov
Boris Rudnev
Vitaliy Shapovalov
Nikolai Smirnov
Pyotr Kononykhin
Yevgeni Lebedev
Daniil Netrebin
Viktor Semyonov
Viktor Sergachyov
Nadezhda Fedosova
Zinaida Kirienko
Sergey Shakurov
