How Steel is Made

Author: Nikolai Ostrovsky
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: This book is an autobiographical novel by the Soviet writer Nikolai Ostrovsky. Pavlo Korchagin, born into a working-class family and living in poverty, started working at the age of twelve and endured much oppression. However, with his stubborn and righteous character, clear love and hatred, he earned the friendship and love of Dinya, who came from an upper-class background. Through her, he read numerous outstanding literary works. Later, he met the elderly Bolshevik Zhukhrai and, under his guidance, joined the revolution, gradually growing into an outstanding Bolshevik party member. During the brutal years of establishing and defending the Soviet regime, in battles against Polish invaders and White Guards, Pavlo was severely wounded multiple times, ultimately losing his sight and becoming completely paralyzed. He had to lay down his weapons and pick up a pen to continue fighting for the magnificent cause of human liberation. Based on his own experiences, he passionately celebrated the birth of a new era in the vast canvas of life, successfully portraying the heroic and extraordinary figures of the Soviet generation of Communist Youth League members. With his full revolutionary enthusiasm and poetic style, the author left an eternal monument for his contemporaries.