Virgin Soil Upturned

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Virgin Soil Upturned is a Soviet-era novel by Mikhail Sholokhov that portrays the collectivization of agriculture in the Don region and the resulting social and political upheavals among peasants.

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Virgin Soil 1
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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet novel
novel
adaptedAs Soviet film adaptations
associatedRegion Don Cossack region
author Mikhail Sholokhov NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
depicts collective farms
kulaks
party activists
peasants
firstPartPublicationPeriod 1930s
genre political novel
socialist realist novel
hasCharacterType Cossack peasants
collective farm chairman
kulak opponents of collectivization
party organizer
hasInfluenced Soviet perceptions of collectivization
hasPart Book One of Virgin Soil Upturned
Book Two of Virgin Soil Upturned NERFINISHED
ideologicalContext Soviet socialist realism
languageOfWorkOrName Russian
literaryForm prose
literaryGenre historical novel
literaryMovement Socialist realism NERFINISHED
mainTheme Soviet agrarian policy
class struggle in the countryside
collectivization of agriculture
social upheaval among peasants
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFor depiction of resistance to collectivization
detailed depiction of rural Soviet life
representation of party activists in the countryside
originalLanguage Russian
originalTitleLanguage Russian
placeInAuthorOeuvre major work of Mikhail Sholokhov
politicalContext Stalin era
portrays Soviet collectivization campaign NERFINISHED
conflict between traditional peasant life and socialism
ideological transformation of peasants
political repression in the countryside
settingCountry Soviet Union NERFINISHED
settingLocation Don region NERFINISHED
subjectMatter Soviet rural society
agrarian reform
party-state power in villages
timePeriod early 1930s

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Mikhail Sholokhov notableWork Virgin Soil Upturned
Ivan Turgenev notableWork Virgin Soil Upturned
this entity surface form: Virgin Soil