>>24555600
>All Quiet on the Don
I don't know what you're refering to. Sholokhov has the novel And quiet flows the Don and my dad has a short stories collection roughly translated as The Quiet Don.

I've read the novel, it's a monumental work. It ate a lot of time from start to finish but I loved it. I'm really surprised it was published and praised in Soviet Russia. Though it doesn't insist upon it but the Reds are depicted as being as bad as the Whites, bloodthirsty, pitiful and malicious. No side being better than the other, propagandists are shown as being petty and sawing distrust even in communities in which there was peace and agreement between people.
But I guess it only goes to show you that Sholokhov embraced his flawed characters, showing them with all their good and bad sides, making them compelling not only as characters but as humans.