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And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (Тихий Дон, lit. "The Quiet Don") is 4-volume epic novel by Russian writer Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. The 1st three volumes were written from 1925 to '32 & published in the Soviet magazine October in 1928–32. The 4th volume was finished in 1940. The English translation of the 1st three volumes appeared under this title in 1934. The novel depicts the lives & struggles of Don Cossacks during WWI, the Russian Revolution & Russian Civil War. The authorship of the novel is contested by some literary critics & historians, who believe it wasn't entirely written by Sholokhov. However, few dispute that the work remains a towering achievement of twentieth-century literature, offering a vivid and deeply human portrait of Cossack life during one of Russia's most turbulent periods.