How the Steel Was Tempered
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How the Steel Was Tempered or The Making of a Hero, is a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky. With 36.4 million copies sold, it is one of the best-selling books of all time and the be
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1964 stamp depicting Ostrovsky and an illustration for How the Steel Was Tempered
Irina Fedotova as Tonia in the 1942 film
German translation by Nelly Drechsler
Nikolai Ostrovsky
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Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky was a Soviet socialist realist writer. He is best known for his novel How the Steel Was Tempered.
How the Steel Was Tempered
…the Steel Was Tempered (Russian: Как закалялась сталь, romanized: Kak zakalyalas stal) or The Making of a Hero, is a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936). With 36.4 million copies sold, it is one of the best-selling books of all time and the best-selling book in the Russian language. The story…
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Ostrovsky on a 1954 postage stamp