《How the Steel Was Tempered》How the Steel Was Tempered (Russian: Как закалялась сталь, Kak zakalyalas' stal' ) is a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936) during Joseph Stalin's era. Pavel Korchagin is the central character.AnalysisThe story is a fictionalized autobiography. In real life, Ostrov...