Soviet Revolutionary Novel · 红色经典 · 1930s
Author: Nikolai Ostrovsky (尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基)
Original Title: Как закалялась сталь
Published: 1932 / 1934 (USSR)
Description: A semi-autobiographical novel tracing the life of Pavel Korchagin from his youth through the Russian Civil War and the early Soviet industrialization, celebrated as a hymn to revolutionary will and self-sacrifice.
"Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him only once..." — one of the most quoted openings in 20th-century socialist literature.
本书原文为俄文,俄文标题如章节链接后所附。