as nearly every survivor of the great purge, rahimov expressed communist ideas on his works. suleyman rahimov started his writing career on 1931, with "shamo" (şamo), which he kept working on until 1978 and released 5 volumes. the series cover numerous events, characters through artistic imagery. there is no such series in the azerbaijani literature. "shamo" has a complex artistic environment. artistic genius has a spontaneous importance in the novel, largely dependent on the forms of reality that take place directly in the writer's imagination. that is why, in the novel, the artistic principles of socialist realism are essentially intertwined with the writer's imagination. the characteristics and lifestyle of the shehli village described in shamo was patriarchal. rahimov expressed the issues that other azerbaijani writers of that time, such as najaf bey vazirov, abdurrahim bey hagverdiyev, nariman narimanov and jalil mammadguluzadeh did.