How the Steel Was Tempered
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Author | Nikolai Ostrovsky |
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Country | U.S.S.R. |
Language | Russian |
Genre(s) | Novel |
Publisher | |
Released | 1936 |
Media Type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
ISBN | NA |
How the Steel Was Tempered is a socialist realism novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936) during Stalin's era. Pavel Korchagin is the central character.
The USSR adapted part of the novel to a film titled Pavel Korchagin in 1956. In this film, Korchagin was acted by Vasily Lanovoy.
As late as 2000, China adapted the novel to a TV series of the same title, and all the members in the cast were from Ukraine.