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Epigraph: “In a civil war, every victory is a defeat” (Lucian)

The epic novel "Quiet Don" was written by one of the greatest writers XX century - Mikhail Sholokhov. Work on the work went on for almost 15 years. The resulting masterpiece was awarded Nobel Prize. The outstanding work of the writer is considered because Sholokhov himself was a participant in hostilities, because the civil war for him, first of all, is the tragedy of a generation and the whole country.

In the novel, the world of all inhabitants Russian Empire split in two by a sharp change

power - the Bolsheviks overthrew Tsar Nicholas II. The system that had developed over the centuries was destroyed to the ground and the people did not know how to behave. Sholokhov describes the throwing of the people on the example of the hero Grigory Melekhov, who cannot decide what color his ideology is - red or white. He "painfully tried to sort out the confusion of thoughts, to think over something, to decide." All those around him constantly offer Melekhov to choose one or another path, which once again proves the split and confusion taking place in society. In the toga, he comes to the conclusion: "Life has gone wrong, and maybe I'm to blame for this."

The novel has two illustrative

episode: chapter 12, which describes the execution of the Chernetsovites, and chapter 31, which tells about the massacre of the Podtelkovites. If we compare the images of white officers and Bolsheviks before execution, they are the same. Both whites and reds before death accuse others of stupidity and short-sightedness; both whites and reds are sure of their rightness and are not afraid of death. It is indicative that both Chernetsov and Podtelkovtsy are Don Cossacks! These are people who lived in neighboring houses and ate the same bread. Podtelkov, without a share of doubt, gives the order to kill 40 captured white officers, Chernetsov refuses to support the allies, leaving the Reds to be punished, Dmitry Korshunov cracks down on his own fellow villagers in the hope of earning the rank of officer. The humanist writer Sholokhov shows that a civil war is a fratricidal war, essentially meaningless, because both sides are fighting for a better future for their homeland, and there will always be “double agents” among the people who stand up only for their own well-being. As a result, the generally absurd opinion of one of the Cossacks sounds: “Let's fight both the Reds and the Cadets! We'll change everyone!"

The symbolism of the novel is not only in the opposition of red and white, but also in the opposition of war and nature. The horrors of war intersect with descriptions of the grandeur and tranquility of nature: an eagle soaring over the steppe, birches with brown buds, and the Don River separating the warring parties. The writer emphasizes that whoever comes to power as a result, nature will remain unchanged, the seasons will continue to change each other. There are things much more important than the struggle for power. There is love, there is honor, there is courage. And you need to show them every day, taking care of your family and doing peaceful things for the well-being of the Motherland.

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The purpose of the lesson: to determine with students the essence of the Sholokhov concept of the civil war in the epic novel.

Lesson objectives: learn to work with the text, find the “keys” in it to answer the question, comprehend, select the “zest” in the text for yourself.

Epigraph to the lesson:

“In a civil war there are no right and wrong, there are no just and unjust, there are no angels and no demons, just as there are no winners. It has only the vanquished – all of us, all the people, all of Russia.”

Boris Vasiliev

“This is epic in its entirety. sense of the word, reflecting the most important thing in our civil war - the monstrous fluctuations, throwing normal, calm family man. And it's done, from my point of view, great. On one fate, the whole fracture of society is shown. Even though he is a Cossack, he is still primarily a peasant, a farmer. And now the breaking of this breadwinner is the whole civil war in my understanding”

Boris Vasiliev

introduction teachers.

"Quiet Don" is a novel about the fate of the people in a critical era. But it is concrete - historical in its plot, and the fates of the heroes are correlated with this historical reality. Therefore, in order to understand the novel, one must turn to the reality addressed in it. Sholokhov tells about the difficult morale of the people, who are driven to despair. And when he takes up a sword, he loses the measure of restraint and prudence. Blood is shed on both sides.

What are public opinion the writer himself? He is against violence, especially in a form that destroys everything. moral standards. Sholokhov forgives no one for cruelty. Violating the law of humanity is a grave crime that has no justification. This is how people think. So does the spokesman for his thoughts and psychology, Sholokhov.

Message topics, goals, objectives of the lesson.
Defining the essence of Sholokhov's concept of the civil war, I would like to draw your attention, guys, and the attention of guests to reflections contemporary writers, historians who discovered a new vision of the events of those years. So Boris Vasiliev claims: (reading epigraph to the lesson).

vocabulary work

The essence is the most important thing.

Concept - a system of views on something, the main idea.

The epic novel “Quiet Flows the Don” convinces us of the fairness of what has been said. Sholokhov was one of those who first spoke of the civil war as a greatest tragedy which had the most severe consequences. What explains that level? truth researchers? Where did Sholokhov draw this the truth ?

Is it true

Like Leo Tolstoy in the story "Hadji Murad". “The human world, torn apart by the revolution…”

But how does Sholokhov draw, this human world, torn apart by the revolution?

Vocabulary work:

Anticipation - i.e. do something before looking ahead.

So Sholokhov in the 5th part of the novel in the 1st chapter (ending) writes “ Until January on the farm Tatarsky ... "(read excerpt)

What combination of words is in this passage key?

they will break the habitual way of life of the Don Cossacks. That is why the essence of the events depicted in the novel tragic because it affects the fate of vast segments of the population. Exactly huge:

How many acting characters in an epic novel? (More than seven hundred)

Main
episodic
Called by name
Unnamed

And Sholokhov is worried about their fate.

So what happened on the Don during the civil war? As Sholokhov himself calls it phenomenon civil war?

Decossackization of the Cossacks

those. the essence of Sholokhov's concept in the novel is to show how it actually happened. (COSSACK DISCOVERY)

What was it accompanied by?

– mass terror.

Let us turn to the text of the novel, to its episodes

Mass terror, part 6. ch. 19 (reading an excerpt from the text)
Outrages of the Reds, Part 6. Ch. 16 (reading a passage of text)
List of those shot, Part 6. Ch. 24 (reading an excerpt from the text)

How does Sholokhov portray this time?

How does he paint the future?

“All Obdonye lived a hidden, crushed life… darkness hung over the future”

Sholokhov speaks about this!

And how do the Cossacks perceive this time?

Petro Melekhov (on the division of the people) part 6. ch. 2 (reading an excerpt from the text)

Miron Grigorievich (about life) Part 6. Ch. 19 (reading an excerpt from the text)

- What will Sholokhov say about people?

“The people got drunk, became rabid” i.e. became evil, cruel brutalized

Pay attention to what correct words Mikhail Sholokhov chooses!

And today we cannot pass by those scenes that depict this cruelty

“... And in Ponomarev they were still puffing ...” (part 5. ch. 30) (reading an excerpt from the text)

- Why does Sholokhov not look for the right and the wrong, but only enumerates?

- What is going on in a world split in two?

Murder is a violent interruption of life, the right to which is not given to a person, and is not justified nothing!

Therefore, he does not justify or blame anyone.

How does he feel about violent death?

Rejects!

What did he say about cruelty?

Students talk about symbols.

It is difficult to stop a person when his mind is darkened by enmity and revenge .

Who takes revenge and to whom?

Mishka Koshevoy shot grandfather Grishaka, burned down Korshunov's hut and 7 more houses!!

Mitka Korshunov “slaughtered the entire Koshevoy family, the same Mishka Koshevoy kills Pyotr Melekhov, and then becomes the son-in-law of the Melekhovs.”

But can revenge be stopped?

And who, according to Sholokhov, can stop cruelty, think about the meaning of life?

Wordless nature!

She is devoid of passions and fulfills her destiny: SUPPORTS THE CELEBRATION

Therefore, many in 1928 were surprised by something unusual in our literature - the ending of the second book of the novel. A civil war is blazing on the Don, people are dying, he died in the same way extrajudicially Red Army soldier Jack. (read the scene of the funeral of the Red Army soldier Jack).

So, what two realities of life collide in one episode? What are they carrying?

Can be given as D/Z.

So what does the mournful face of the Mother of God remind of? What is the meaning of this inscription?

- What did Sholokhov remind those who lived then to us, to our generation? What does it teach?

- What main idea defends?

So nature chooses life.

People are at a crossroads, they are looking, rushing about. Their harsh time put before a choice.

Ch.6.ch.16.

What side are you on?

You seem to have accepted the red faith?

Were you in white? White? Officer, huh?

These questions were asked to the same person - the main character of the novel by M.A. Sholokhov

Grigory Melekhov.

Does he answer them?

He is tired.

From what?

From wars.

So what do you think essence civil war?

In the breaking of man! In his impermanence, hesitation throwing gives rise to malice, enmity, revenge in brutality.

L.N. Tolstoy also spoke about this in the story “Hadji Murat”

And what is the concept of Sholokhov?

Stop the fratricidal war!

What about Babel's concept?

Rejects war.

And Fadeev?

Shows the breaking of a person (Levinson).

His actions are justified by a higher purpose.

This is how Boris Vasiliev interprets his position. (Reading the writing on the board)

Therefore, the dream of the protagonist of the novel Grigory Melekhov to live as a peaceful worker, a family man, but it is constantly being destroyed by the cruelty of the civil war.

And again the contrast, but already emotional!

And so, from episode to episode, the tragic discrepancy between inner aspirations grows. Grigory Melekhov and surrounding life.

His inner desire as a person for the world

IN surrounding life – war.

So what will happen to the man, Grigory Melekhov, who did not accept this hostile world, this “bewildered” existence? What will happen to him if he, like a female little bustard, which is not able to frighten off volleys of guns, having traveled all the roads of war, stubbornly strives for peace, life, and work on earth?

Sholokhov does not answer these questions. With his “Quiet Don”, the writer M. Sholokhov also addresses our time, teaches us to look for moral and aesthetic values not on the paths of class intolerance and war. Judging by the present time, one of the topical issues in our time is an interethnic conflict. Inside Russia, a civil war is still going on. (Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh) It is necessary to look for these values on the ways peace and humanism, brotherhood and mercy.

Russia is now also in the throes of a great redistribution, it is in a world split in two, she is still at the crossroads. What will happen to her? What will happen to us?

And today's lesson I want to finish with the words of F.I. Tyutchev. He was right when he said:

Russia cannot be understood with the mind,
Do not measure with a common yardstick:
She has a special become -
One can only believe in Russia.

And really, I want to believe that he will win after all intelligence. Otherwise it is impossible, impossible.

In a world split in two (based on the novel by M. Sholokhov "The Quiet Flows the Don") Amitova A.A.

The purpose of the lesson: to determine with students the essence of the Sholokhov concept of the civil war in the epic novel.

Lesson objectives: learn to work with the text, find the “keys” in it to answer the question, comprehend, select the “zest” in the text for yourself.

Epigraph to the lesson:

“In a civil war there are no right and wrong, there are no just and unjust, there are no angels and no demons, just as there are no winners. It has only the vanquished – all of us, all the people, all of Russia.”

Boris Vasiliev

“This is an epic in the full sense of the word, reflecting the most important thing in our civil war - the monstrous fluctuations, throwing of a normal, calm family man. And it's done, from my point of view, great. On one fate, the whole fracture of society is shown. Even though he is a Cossack, he is still primarily a peasant, a farmer. And now the breaking of this breadwinner is the whole civil war in my understanding”

Boris Vasiliev

Introduction by the teacher.

And what are the social views of the writer himself? He is against violence, especially in a form that destroys all moral norms. Sholokhov forgives no one for cruelty. Violating the law of humanity is a grave crime that has no justification. This is how people think. So does the spokesman for his thoughts and psychology, Sholokhov.

Message topics, goals, objectives of the lesson.

Defining the essence of Sholokhov's concept of the civil war, I would like to draw your attention, guys, and the attention of guests to the reflections of modern writers, historians, who have discovered a new vision of the events of those years. So Boris Vasiliev claims: (reading epigraph to the lesson).

vocabulary work

essence- the most important thing.

Concept- a system of views on something, the main idea.

The epic novel “Quiet Flows the Don” convinces us of the fairness of what has been said. Sholokhov was one of those who first spoke of the civil war as the greatest tragedy that had grave consequences. What explains that level? truth researchers? Where did Sholokhov draw this the truth ?

Is it true

Like Leo Tolstoy in the story "Hadji Murad". “The human world, torn apart by the revolution…”

But how does Sholokhov draw, this human world, torn apart by the revolution?

vocabulary work:

Preliminary- i.e. do something before looking ahead.

So Sholokhov in the 5th part of the novel in the 1st chapter (ending) writes “ Until January on the farm Tatarsky ... "(read excerpt)

What combination of words is in this passage key?

- How many acting characters are in the epic novel?(More than seven hundred)

episodic
Called by name
Unnamed

And Sholokhov is worried about their fate.

So what happened on the Don during the civil war? As Sholokhov himself calls it phenomenon civil war?

Decossackization of the Cossacks

those. the essence of Sholokhov's concept in the novel is to show how it actually happened. (COSSACK DISCOVERY)

What was it accompanied by?

– mass terror.

Let us turn to the text of the novel, to its episodes

Mass terror, part 6. ch. 19 (reading an excerpt from the text)

Outrages of the Reds, Part 6. Ch. 16 (reading a passage of text)

List of those shot, Part 6. Ch. 24 (reading an excerpt from the text)

- How does Sholokhov depict this time?

- How does the future draw?

“All Obdonye lived a hidden, crushed life… darkness hung over the future”

Sholokhov speaks about this!

- And how do the Cossacks perceive this time?

Petro Melekhov (on the division of the people) part 6. ch. 2 (reading an excerpt from the text)

Miron Grigorievich (about life) Part 6. Ch. 19 (reading an excerpt from the text)

- What will Sholokhov say about people?

“The people got drunk, became rabid” i.e. became evil, cruel brutalized

Pay attention to what correct words Mikhail Sholokhov chooses!

And today we cannot pass by those scenes that depict this cruelty

“... And in Ponomarev they were still puffing ...” (part 5. ch. 30) (reading an excerpt from the text)

- Why does Sholokhov not look for the right and the wrong, but only enumerates?

- What is going on ina world split in two ?

Murder is a violent interruption of life, the right to which is not given to a person, and is not justified nothing !

Therefore, he does not justify or blame anyone.

How does he feel about violent death?

Rejects!

- What did he oppose cruelty?

Students talk about symbols.

It is difficult to stop a person when his mind is darkened by enmity and revenge .

- Who takes revenge and to whom?

Mishka Koshevoy shot grandfather Grishaka, burned down Korshunov's hut and 7 more houses!!

Mitka Korshunov “slaughtered the entire Koshevoy family, the same Mishka Koshevoy kills Pyotr Melekhov, and then becomes the son-in-law of the Melekhovs.”

- But can revenge be stopped?

Can!

And who, according to Sholokhov, can stop cruelty, think about the meaning of life?

wordless nature!

She is devoid of passions and fulfills her destiny: SUPPORTS THE CELEBRATION

LIFE

- So, what two realities of life collide in one episode? What are they carrying?

Can be given as D/Z.

- So what does the mournful face remind of mother of god? What is the meaning of this inscription?

- What did Sholokhov remind those who lived then to us, to our generation? What does it teach?

- What is the main idea?

So nature chooses life.

- And the people?

People are at a crossroads, they are looking, rushing about. Their harsh time put before a choice.

Ch.6.ch.16.

What side are you on?

- You seem to have accepted the red faith?

- Were you in white? White? Officer, huh?

These questions were asked to the same person - the main character of the novel by M.A. Sholokhov

Grigory Melekhov.

Does he answer them?

- Why?

He is tired.

- From what?

Fromwars .

- So what do you think?essence civil war?

In the breaking of man! In his impermanence, hesitation throwing gives rise to malice, enmity, revenge in brutality.

L.N. Tolstoy also spoke about this in the story “Hadji Murat”

- And what is the concept of Sholokhov?

Stop the fratricidal war!

- What about Babel's concept?

Rejects war.

- And Fadeev?

Shows the breaking of a person (Levinson).

His actions are justified by a higher purpose.

This is how Boris Vasiliev interprets his position. (Reading the writing on the board)

Therefore, the dream of the protagonist of the novel Grigory Melekhov to live as a peaceful worker, a family man, but it is constantly being destroyed by the cruelty of the civil war.

Part 6. ch.10

And again the contrast, but already emotional!

And so, from episode to episode, the tragic discrepancy between inner aspirations grows. Grigory Melekhov and surrounding life.

His inner desire as a person for the world

In the life around war.

Russia is now also in the throes of a great redistribution, it is in a world split in two, she is still at the crossroads. What will happen to her? What will happen to us?

And today's lesson I want to finish with the words of F.I. Tyutchev. He was right when he said:

Russia cannot be understood with the mind,
Do not measure with a common yardstick:
She has a special become -
One can only believe in Russia.

II. Examination homework

What role does the epigraph to the first book play in the third part of the novel?

How does Sholokhov portray the events of the First World War?

The tragic motive of the epigraph from an old Cossack song echoes the pages of the second part of the novel. The date appears for the first time: "In March 1914 ...". This year separates peace from war. The news of the war finds the Cossacks at their usual work - they mowed down the corn. And at the gathering, people have one anxiety - mobilization, one thought - “let them go to war, but we have unharvested bread!” The terrible word “war” is an expressive remark of an old railroad worker in relation to recruits: “You are my dear ... beef!” (book one, part 3, ch. 4).

How does war affect the people involved in combat?

The first deaths are ridiculous, forever engraved in memory. Sholokhov reveals the state of mind of a person who shed someone else's blood. Gregory is most shocked by his murder of an Austrian (end of ch. 5, part 3). This torments him, does not allow him to live in peace, breaks, cripples his soul (part 3, ch. 10). The changes are striking: he was "bent by the war, sucked the blush from his face, painted it with bile."

The scene of the collision of the Cossacks with the Germans resembles the pages of Tolstoy's works. The war in the image of Sholokhov is completely devoid of a touch of romance, a heroic halo. The people didn't do the work. This skirmish of people distraught with fear was “called a feat” (see part 3, ch. 9):

“But it happened like this: people collided on the field of death, who had not yet had time to break their hands in the destruction of their own kind, in the animal horror that declared them, they stumbled, knocked together, inflicted blind blows, mutilated themselves and horses and fled, frightened by a shot that killed a man, dispersed morally crippled. They called it a feat."

Let us recall the scene of Napoleon awarding a randomly selected Russian soldier (“War and Peace”). It was an "explosion of bestial enthusiasm," as it was written in the diary of a murdered Cossack (entry dated September 2, part 3, ch. 11), over whose life the staff clerks laughed. By the way, this diary just mentions "War and Peace", where Tolstoy "talks about the line between two enemy troops - the line of uncertainty, as if separating the living from the dead."

How does Listnitsky behave in the regiment?

(Listnitsky writes to his father: “I want a lively business and ... if you want - a feat ... I’m going to the front” (part 3, ch. 14). Listnitsky went on a counterattack with the regiment (part 3, ch. 15). On the Southwestern Front, during an attack near Listnitsky, a horse was killed, he himself received two wounds (part 3, ch. 22. That is, Listnitsky is a man of honor, a brave officer.)

Describe the image of Chubaty.

(The figure of the Cossack Uryupin, nicknamed Chubaty, is terrible (“Kill, cut, don’t think!” - part 3, ch. 12). Let us recall Bek-Agamalov like him and Captain Osadchy from Kuprin’s “Duel”. Chubaty, whom all horses are afraid of, who "cut down" a captured German, agrees that he has a wolf's heart.")

How is the feat of Gregory different from the "feat" of the Cossacks in a skirmish with the Germans?

(Gregory saves human life. (See part 3, ch. 20).)

What is the purpose of Sholokhov depicting battle scenes?

(Battle scenes in themselves are of no interest to Sholokhov. He is worried about something else - that the war is against a person. A moral protest against the senselessness of the inhumanity of war is clearly expressed. “As the salt marsh does not absorb water, so Grigory’s heart did not absorb pity. life, because he was known as brave - four St. George's cross and served four medals ”(Part 4, Ch. 4).)

Let's analyze the scene of Grigory's feelings about the killed Austrian soldier (T. 1, part 3, chapter 10). What can you say?

(Killing a person, even an enemy in battle, contradicts the humane nature of Grigory. Love for everything, a keen sense of someone else's pain, the ability to compassion - this is the essence of the character of Sholokhov's hero.

The madness of a war in which innocent people die (meaningless sacrifices laid on the altar of someone's ambition) - that's what the hero thinks about.)

What figurative means does the author use?

(Sholokhov’s visual means are varied: he shows how the Cossacks write off “Prayer from a Gun”, “Prayer from a Battle”, “Prayer during a Raid”; he cites the pages of the diary of one of the Cossacks, letters from the front; scenes around the fire are lyrically colored - the Cossacks sing “ The Cossack went to a distant foreign land ... "; the voice of the author, addressing the widows, breaks into the epic narrative: "Tear, dear, the collar of the last shirt on yourself! with the work of your hand and fight on the ground at the threshold of an empty hut!”)

What qualities of Gregory are shown in the scene in the hospital? (Pride, independence, anger for everything that the war did, broke out of Gregory in a daring trick (Part 3, Ch. 23).)

How does the war affect the lives of civilians?

(“The monstrous absurdity of the war does not spare the non-military either. The Melekhovs receive news that Grigory “fell the death of the brave” - “the invisible dead man huddled in the Melekhov kuren.” The war also destroys the “illegal” family of Grigory and Aksinya.)

III. Making notebooks: recording conclusions from the conversation

Following the traditions of Russian literature, through battle scenes, through the sharp experiences of the characters, through landscape sketches, digressions(the campfire scene is a soldier's song) Sholokhov leads to the understanding of the strangeness, unnaturalness, inhumanity of war.

Homework (according to the second book)

1. How did the events of the World War affect the peaceful life of the Cossacks?

2. The new government and the attitude of the Cossacks towards it.

3. Civil war as a tragedy of the people (pick up episodes).

Additional material for the teacher 1

World War I. In her image, the analytical talent of the artist, who is well aware of the demand of the time, manifested itself. The novel was written between the two wars. The bonfires of the First had not had time to turn into ashes - the imperialists began preparing a new one, the same thing that happened on the eve of the 14th was repeated - militaristic frenzy, nationalist hysteria, hopes for the most weighty "arguments" - bombs and shells ... A program was being developed for a new redivision of the world. That is why the theme of the last war became the most important for those who, using its memorable material, exposed the bloody consequences of militarism, and - with another goal - for the torchbearers of the now total extermination battle - fascist cutthroats who drew their lessons from the recent defeat of Germany.

The war was studied by historians and military strategists, politicians and economists, diplomats and intelligence officers, scientists and artists, doctors and psychologists. Events were traced day by day, decisive operations - by hours and minutes.

A lot of exciting works have been written about that war. Many writers of the world - Russians, Germans, Bulgarians, French, Italians, British, Poles, Austrians, Hungarians, Yugoslavs, Americans - said their word of damnation. Anger is filled with the memories of those who visited the damp trenches under fire, survived the tenth or twentieth of the military unit.

Sholokhov also has much in common with this prose. But his achievements, even against the very impressive background of the skill of A. Barbusse, B. Kellermann, E. Remarque, R. Aldington, R. Rolland, J. Giono, A. Zweig, K. Fedin, are outstanding in terms of the coverage of reality, the scale of generalizations of the visibility of paintings front battles.

If the hero of a military novel was most often an intellectual - honest, suffering, confused, then Sholokhov's in the foreground are the sons of deep labor Russia, cut off from urgent matters on earth.

Sholokhov's truth about the war - here it is. Russian soldiers hang like corpses on barbed wire fences. German artillery mows down entire regiments. The wounded crawl through the stubble. The earth groans deafly, “crucified by many hooves,” when the distraught horsemen rush into cavalry attacks and fall flat with their horses. Neither a prayer from a gun, nor a prayer during a raid helps the Cossack. "They attached them to gaitans, to mother's blessings, to bundles with a pinch of native land, and death stained those who carried prayers with them."

The first blows with a sword on a person, the first murders - this remains in the memory for a lifetime. The pain for the land is inescapable: “the cavalry trampled the ripened bread”, “where there were battles, shells blew up the gloomy face of the earth with smallpox: rusted in it, longing for human blood, fragments of iron and steel.”

Just a month of war, and how it crippled people. Get old before your eyes. They are being obscene. They go berserk. They go crazy.

The semi-feudal regime that existed in the country became even more embittered during the war. In the army, humiliation, insults, bullying, surveillance, starvation rations have become the norm.

The mediocrity and irresponsibility of the command ... Decay in the royal court, the impotence of ministers and generals to improve things ...

The rear collapsed. “Together with the second stage, the third one also left. The villages, the farms were depopulated, as if the whole Donshchina had gone to rest for suffering.

It was necessary to take the pain of the Russian land very close to my heart in order to say so mournfully about it:

Many Cossacks were missing - they were lost in the fields of Galicia, Bukovina, East Prussia, the Carpathians, Romania, they lay down as corpses and decayed under the cannon memorial service, and now the high hills of mass graves are overgrown with weeds, crushed them with rains, covered with quicksand snow.

Exposing power-hungry careerists and adventurers accustomed to commanding other people's fates, all those who drive their people to other nations, right into minefields and under a machine-gun fan of bullets, strongly protesting against any encroachment on a person's right to live on earth, Sholokhov contrasted the horrors of war with the beauty of human feelings, the happiness of earthly existence. Pages dedicated to friendship, trust, kindred feelings, love - everything truly lofty, strengthen faith in the victory of a good beginning.

Monarchists, bourgeois democrats, supporters of military dictatorship, separatists, Bolsheviks act in the novel. Everyone has their own views, plans, programs. The material of the novel is, as it were, included in our modern reflections on the fate of the Motherland: what could have happened if the power of the monarch had continued, if Kerensky had continued to hold on, if the Kornilov putsch had ended in victory, if the plans of separatists like Yefim Izvarin had come true, if events on October 25? Or questions of a different order: if Generals Markov and Kaledin had not committed suicide, Kornilov had not been killed in 1918, and Alekseev had not died then?

According to Sholokhov, only that program is real, which does not diverge from the interests of the majority of the people. The situation went like this:

The front was close. The armies were breathing death fever, there was not enough ammunition, food; the armies reached out with many hands to the ghostly word "peace"; the armies greeted the provisional ruler of the republic, Kerensky, in different ways and, urged on by his hysterical cries, stumbled in the June offensive; in the armies, ripened anger melted and boiled like water in a spring swept out by deep springs...

This mood of the front-line soldiers and most of the working people in the rear, reaching out for peace, determined the attitude towards programs and slogans. Fraternization on the fronts testified that the soldiers different countries they became internationalists, they were looking for “one language”, that they hated war as a relic of barbarism, that they were for a system that would save life and give freedom. Therefore, the demand for an exit from the war turned out to be closer to the people than calls for its continuation to a victorious end, and even with the threat of the death penalty.

Sholokhov himself is on the side of those who fought against militarism. The novel serves as a revealing document, the pictures of bloodshed - and there are a lot of them - are given in all details and with such convincing clarity that you shudder.

But World War for Russia - the first circle of hell. She survived even more unnatural - civil strife. A huge area was on fire. "Quiet Flows the Don" - a story about that tragedy. Their own killed their own, inventing sophisticated methods for this. Robbery and violence. Bandit invasions. Binges, the shattered psyche of people, the free behavior of stingers. Typhus epidemic. Death away from home. Orphaned families.

Lesson 21(82). "In a world split in two."

Civil War in the image of Sholokhov

The purpose of the lesson: to show the civil and literary courage of Sholokhov, one of the first to tell the truth about the civil war as a tragedy of the people.

Lesson equipment: reproductions of paintings depicting the civil war; recordings of the songs "There, in the distance, beyond the river ...", "Grenada", "On that distant, on the civilian ...".

Methodical methods: checking homework, analysis of episodes, repetition of what has been learned (works devoted to the civil war), interdisciplinary connections with history, teacher's story.

During the classes

I. teacher's word

For a long time the civil war was shrouded in an aura of heroism and romance.

Let us recall Svetlov's "Grenada", "There, beyond the river...", Okudzhava's "commissars in dusty helmets", films about the "elusive avengers", etc. (If there are recordings of songs, listen selectively).

There was, of course, both Babel and Artem Vesely, but their truth gained wide access to the reader much later.

Boris Vasiliev wrote about it this way: “In a civil war, there are no right in the guilty, there are no angels and no demons, just as there are no winners. There are only the defeated in it - all of us, all the people, all of Russia.

Sholokhov is one of those who spoke of the civil war as the greatest tragedy that had grave consequences. High level the truth about the civil war is supported great job the author with archives, with memoirs, personal impressions and facts. Sholokhov depicts a world corrupted by the revolution, often using the technique of a story-foreword (end of Chapter 1, Part 5). The essence of the events of the novel is tragic, they capture the fate of huge segments of the population (there are more than 700 characters in The Quiet Don).

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