Ostrovsky's creative attitude is extremely serious. It took him five years to write the novel How Steel was Tempered. This novel describes the first generation of Soviet youth after the October Revolution. Under the leadership of the Bolshevik Party, they fought tenaciously against enemies at home and abroad and various difficulties in order to restore the national economy and consolidate the proletarian regime. The author vividly describes the glorious course of the protagonist Paul Kochakin's life and convincingly shows that "steel"-a strong fighter of communism-was tempered by enemies of the same class and various difficulties.
This novel is really not an "ordinary book". As soon as the book was published, it was immediately welcomed and praised by readers at home and abroad. In particular, the protagonist Kochakin recited in front of the curtain of martyrs: "Life only belongs to people once. A man's life should be spent like this: when he looks back on the past, he will not regret wasting his time, nor will he be ashamed of doing nothing. In this way, when he dies, he can say,' I have devoted all my life and energy to the great cause in the world-the struggle for the liberation of mankind.' "Become the motto of millions of revolutionary youth and inspire them to devote themselves to the cause of communism.
Ostrovsky also wrote many political papers and began to write another masterpiece, The Birth of the Storm. He planned to write three volumes, but only finished the first volume, and the disease took his life. 1936 65438+died on February 26th.