Having analyzed Sholokhov’s manuscripts of "And Quiet Flows the Don", the Russian-Israeli linguist Zeev Bar-Sella, stated in 2000s that Sholokhov was not the true author of the novel but instead had been used by the soviet government as a figurehead for this an other works. According to his view, the soviets wanted to demonstrate that in the USSR, even a poorly educated person from a proletarian or peasant class could become a great writer. Based on his textual analysis of "And Quiet Flows the Don," Zeev Bar-Sella asserts that the manuscripts were written by Sholokhov not earlier than 1929, most probably to lend support to the conclusion of his authorship by the 1929 special commission. Bar-Sella names Viktor Sevsky (real name Veniamin Krasnushkin) as the true author of the novel.