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The Making of a Hero

Nikolay Ostrovsky

  • 408 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 1932
  • 96 editions
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1 About this book

This book describes the life of an Ukrainian communist named Pavel Korchagin. The main focus is on how he overcomes the hardships of the revolution and personal difficulties that happen later. As well as on how a communist should live and behave. The plot has some similarities with the actual life of the author.

  • Civilization
  • Russian Propaganda
  • Soviet literature

2 About Nikolay Ostrovsky

1904–1936

Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky (Russian: Николай Алексеевич Островский; Ukrainian: Микола Олексійович Островський, romanized: Mykola Oleksiiovych Ostrovskyi; 29 September 1904 – 22 December 1936) was a Soviet socialist realist writer. He is best known for his novel How the Steel Was Tempered.

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