And Quiet Flows the Don
First rumors of Sholokhov's supposed plagiarism appeared in 1928 following the success of the first two volumes of "And Quiet Flows the Don": it was speculated that the author stole the manuscript from a dead White Army officer. Sholokhov asked the "Pravda" newspaper to prove his authorship, submitted his manuscripts of the first three volumes of "And Quiet Flows the Don" and the plan of the fourth one. In 1929 a special commission was formed that accepted Sholokhov's authorship. In the conclusion signed by four experts, the commission stated that there was no evidence of plagiarism on the one hand, and on the other hand the manuscripts' style was close to that of Sholokhov's previous book, "Tales from the Don".