How the Steel Was Tempered is a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky. Pavel Korchagin is the novel's protagonist. He fights on the Bolsheviks' side in the Civil War (1918-1921) and is considered the quintessential positive hero of socialist realism.
How the Steel Was Tempered is a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky. Pavel Korchagin is the novel's protagonist. He fights on the Bolsheviks' side in the Civil War (1918-1921) and is considered the quintessential positive hero of socialist realism.
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