From Wikipedia.org It's a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936) during Stalin's era. Pavel Korchagin is the central character. Pavel Korchagin, is fighting on the side of the Bolsheviks in the Civil War (1918-1921). He is a quintessential positive hero of socialist realism. The story is a fictionalized autobiography. In real life, Ostrovsky's father died, and his mother worked as a kitchen chef. As he joined the war with the red army of communist party, he lost his right eye because of an infection. Mã: http://www.mediafire.com/?idevmgmmtiz http://www.mediafire.com/?idevmgmmtiz