Almost all the organizations in Solomon-Ka district were on board. The provincial committee of the regiment went to three people - Dubava, Pankratov and Paul. These three men were chosen by Comrade Juhlai himself. Railroad repair work began, who did not expect the conditions would be so difficult, cold autumn rain soaked through the clothes of people, heavy, cold; surrounded by desolate, hundreds of people can only sleep at night in four broken house on the concrete floor, wearing wet and mud-stained clothes, tightly packed together, try to warm each other's body heat. In the morning, they drank some tea and went to work, and lunch was vegetarian flat soup and a cinder-ball of black bread every day. But with their infinite loyalty to the revolutionary cause and strong revolutionary perseverance, they accomplished their mission with flying colors.
The most touching 2
Paul's brother, Arjom, was afraid that Paul's gun would be found by the Germans and shoot himself, so he smashed Paul's gun.
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Paul always put the interests of the party and the motherland in the first place, in that era of blood and fire, Paul and his father and brothers galloped together on the frontier, for the defense of the Soviet regime, with foreign armed interlopers and the white bandits to carry out an indomitable struggle. In the years of healing the wounds of war and restoring the national economy, Paul devoted himself to peaceful labor with all his enthusiasm, and his spirit of hard work and desperation showed the noble quality of the first generation of builders. In the construction of railroads, Paul was in the Pankratov team "desperately in the front", to "crazy speed" work.
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Paul never surrendered on bended knee. He was always ready to take the heaviest blow that could be dealt to him. He stood all tests, and in his treatment of such matters as friendship, love and family he stood the test, and showed noble ****anitarian moral principles.
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Paul was so distressed that he could not help himself after he was paralyzed and blind. He develops thoughts of suicide, at which point the storyline develops to a very tense level. Suicide is tantamount to betrayal of the revolution - because of this, the muzzle of the pistol is so "contemptuously staring at Paul's eyes", so he condemned himself with a cold, grim attitude, saying: "Man, you usually say what to do a heroic cause, but it turns out to be a heroic cause. The first thing you can do is to make a heroic career, but it turns out to be all talk on paper! ...... Have you ever tried to overcome this life! ...... Have you tried your best to break out of this iron ring? Even when you get to the point where life is just too much to bear, find a way to live. To make life more rewarding. There is nothing worse than falling off the wagon." For a young blind ****anist, all he needed in life was to be able to continue working for the Party. He overcame the blows of his tragic fate with strength and fortitude and began the struggle for his return to the ranks. Paul also practiced the principles of his life with his life's work: "The most precious thing for a man is his life, and life comes only once to each man. A man's life should be spent in such a way that when he looks back, he will not regret his wasted years, nor will he be ashamed of his inactivity; so that when he is dying he will be able to say: 'My whole life and all my energies. All dedicated to the most magnificent cause in the world - the struggle for the liberation of mankind.'" This is a true multi-portrait of Paul's fighting life, but also a profound summary of his revolutionary optimism.
Characters in the book
Paul Kochagin (lovingly known as: Povlusha, commonly known as: Povka)
Seryozha Bruszak --Paul's childhood friend, a soldier of the Red Army, the secretary of the district committee of the **** Youth League
Varya Bruszak -Seryozha's sister, member of the ****Youth League
Lida Ustinovich - a staff member of the political department of the Red Army division, a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Committee of the ****Youth League
Ivan Zarki. - Red Army soldier, secretary of the ****Youth League district committee
Ignat Pankratov - dockworker, secretary of the ****Youth League at the freight terminal
Nikolai Okunev - locomotive depot secretary of the *** Youth League, secretary of the district committee of the *** Youth League
Fyodor Zhukhrai - sailor, underground worker of the Party, chairman of the Provincial Lustration Committee, deputy head of the Special Service Department of the Military District
Dolynik - carpenter, underground Worker, Chairman of the Municipal Revolutionary Committee
Akim - Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the ****Youth League, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian ****Youth League
Tokarev - veteran pincer, head of the road construction team, Secretary of the District Party Committee
< p>Alexander Puzilevsky - head of the Red ArmyLedeniov - old Bolshevik
Artyom Kochagin - Paul's brother of Paul, locksmith, chairman of the city soviet
Politovsky - train driver
Zakhar Buruzak - father of Seryozha, deputy train driver
Maria Yakovlevna - Paul's mother
Daya Kochagina (affectionately known as: Dayusha) - female laborer, Paul's wife
Donia Tumanova - Paul's girlfriend as a teenager, daughter of a forest officer
Dmitry Dubava - secretary of the ****Youth League district committee, Trotskyist
Volodya Tuvta - head of the registration and distribution department of the ****Youth League provincial committee, Trotskyist
Tsvetaev - Secretary of the Railway Factory Reunion Committee, Trotskyist
Vasily Theophany - Ukrainian Socialist Revolutionary Party member, counter-revolutionary
Wiktor Leszczyński - - Polish hereditary nobleman, high school student, informer
Petliura - leader of the White Bandits, asshole
Paul
Paul was a self-conscious, selfless revolutionary fighter who always put the interests of the party and the motherland first. In the blood and fire of the war years, Paul and his brothers and fathers rode together on the frontiers, in order to defend the Soviet regime, with foreign armed interferers and the white bandits fought bloody battles, showing a willingness to sacrifice for the revolutionary cause of the dedication of the spirit of sacrifice. During the difficult years of healing the wounds of war and restoring the national economy, he devoted himself to peaceful labor with all his enthusiasm. Although he was once a jingoist and a bloodstained soldier, he was not proud of his accomplishments, nor did he consider his personal fame and fortune, but only wanted to do something more for the Party and the people. The party told him to repair the railroad, he went; the party transferred him to be a cadre of the regiment, he went, and all of them harmed his life to do. For the sake of the revolution, he could even sacrifice love. He loved Lida, but under the influence of "Gadfly", he wanted to "devote himself completely to the revolutionary cause", so he said goodbye without saying goodbye according to the way of "Gadfly". After being paralyzed and blind, his only need in life was to be able to continue to work for the Party. As he said, "My whole life and all my energy have been dedicated to the most magnificent cause in the world -- the struggle for the liberation of mankind."
Paul is a tough and strong revolutionary warrior, he has withstood severe tests in all aspects of life. In front of the enemy's torture, he was steadfast; in the rain of bullets on the battlefield, he went forward; in the fight with the devouring life of the disease, he has repeatedly made the gods of death, creating a "back from the dead 'miracle. In particular, the process of climbing up to the temple of art while he was still on his deathbed demonstrated the highest level of iron will that a revolutionary warrior can achieve.
Paul is another heroic figure who sees greatness in the ordinary. In his resume, there is no earth-shattering great performance, he always started from the most ordinary small things. Faced with the heavy blow of disease, he also had the idea of suicide, and it is in his heroic passion to fight with the disease, he contains the danger of "leftist" infantile disease. Paul later also finally realized that he did not love the body can not be called heroic behavior, but a kind of capricious and irresponsible. Therefore, Paul is great, but also ordinary, he is in the fire of the revolution gradually refined mature steel warrior, is a flesh and blood, let a person feel close to the role model.
Paul is a typical image with autobiographical nature modeled by the author himself, and the writer depicts Paul based on his own life experience and true feelings. Therefore, Paul's moving deeds are not artistic fiction, but basically a true story, but its real, so more touching. However, the author opposes to regard this novel as a writer's autobiography, because "this is a novel, not a biography". In Paul, he concentrated on his contemporaries, many similar characters of thought and character traits, using the typicalization of the technique. He said: "In this book, I am not writing about Paul Kochagin. In this book, I am not writing about Paul Kochagin alone, but about millions of Kochagins, millions of men and women who fought for their own happiness and put their lives on the line!" Paul's image is both autobiographical and synoptic, the most brilliant and typical representative of the young socialist generation.
Storyline
1 .Sixteen-year-old Paul is working as a small laborer in a bakery, where his mother is a cook in the house of Mayor Rishinsky. The mayor's son, Viktor, wants Paul to jump from a wooden bridge into a river for three gold coins for his amusement. In order to get the three gold coins to subsidize his mother and son's family, Paul jumped off the bridge despite the danger. But when he finds Victor to ask for the money, he is insulted and ridiculed by Victor instead. Paul angrily beats Viktor at a high-society party, arousing the sympathy of Tonya, the daughter of the town's doctor Tumenov.
2. The Germans occupy Paul's hometown. When Mayor Rikarsky opens the gates to welcome the Germans into the city, Paul sprinkles cigarette smoke in the bread he offers to the Germans, and the Germans make a fool of themselves, for which Paul is severely beaten and his mother is thrown out of the mayor's house.
3. The Germans post notices around to collect guns, and his brother Arjom forces Paul to dig up his hidden rifle overnight and smash it. He warns his brother that if he lets the enemy search it out, he will be the first to be shot, and then there will be no one to feed the family.
4. His mother sends Paul to be apprenticed at Prohall's hotel, where the fellows boss the new apprentice around, but the workwoman, Volosia, sympathizes with him.
5. Jukhleh, a member of the underground, arrives in town, a good friend of Artyom's, and Paul takes a liking to him. His good friend Seryozha's sister, Varya, is a cleaner at the German command and often tells Jukhleh about the information she overhears.
6. Prokhor, the owner of the hotel, forces Volodya, a female worker, to sleep with a German officer who comes for a drink, but shamelessly deducts her money and threatens to throw her out. Paul is so angry that he throws boiling water on Prokhor and is beaten by Prokhor.
7. The Germans forced Artyom and Seryozha's father, Bruzak, to drive a train to the front to send reinforcements, and the three honest train drivers killed the German soldiers escorting the train and fled halfway.
8. Viktor, who has always been in love with Tonya, attacks her while she is reading a book by the river and is rejected by Tonya. Viktor relents and lashes out at Paul, who is fishing on the sidelines. Paul fights back viciously with the moves Juhle taught him, beating Viktor to the punch.
9. Varya overheard that the enemy was going to poison the local Jews and quickly reported it to Juhleh. Zhukhrai quickly organized the crowd to hide the Jews in their homes. Seryozha's girlfriend, Irina, was also a Jew, but she was left behind by the owner of the store, Mikhelson, to guard the store and did not have time to leave.
Important plot points
Paul Kochakin, born into poverty, was a young man who was born in the middle of the 20th century. Paul Kochakin, born into a poor railroad worker's family, lost his father at an early age and relied on his mother to do the laundry and cooking to make ends meet. 12 years old, his mother sent him to work as a servant in the station cafeteria, where he suffered a lot of abuse. He hated the shopkeepers and the rich people who drank and drank.
After the outbreak of the October Revolution, imperialists and reactionaries tried to strangle the new Soviet regime. Paul's home town of Shebetova, Ukraine, also endured years of armed foreign intervention and civil war. The Red Army liberated the town of Shebetovka, but soon withdrew, leaving only the old Bushwick Jukhrai to work underground in the town. He stayed at Paul's house for a few days and taught Paul many things about the revolution, the working class and the class struggle, and Jukhrai was Paul's initial leader on the road to revolution.
On a fishing trip, Paul befriended Tonya, the daughter of a forestry officer.
One day, Juhlai is captured by the White Bandits. Paul inquired everywhere about his whereabouts, and when the bandit soldiers were on their way to escort Juhlai, Paul pounced on them, knocked them down in a trench, and escaped with Juhlai. Due to the informing of Viktor, the son of the Polish aristocrat Liszczynski, Paul was taken to prison. In prison, Paul withstood the torture, strong and unyielding, in order to meet the head of the White Philadelphia Petliura to visit the small town, a second-class officer mistakenly released Paul as a common prisoner. Afraid to go home for fear of falling back into the clutches of the devil, he came involuntarily to the door of Tonya's garden and leaped into it. Since Paul had rescued Tonya from the last fishing trip, and since she liked his "passionate and stubborn" character, she was delighted by his arrival. Paul also feels that Tonya is different from other rich girls, and they both feel a misty love for each other. In order to take refuge, he agrees to Tonya's request and stays. A few days later, Tonya found Paul's brother Altyn, who sent his brother to join the Red Army in Khachadin.
Paul joined the army as a scout and later as a cavalryman. He was a brave and capable man on the battlefield and an excellent political propagandist. He especially liked to read "The Gadfly", "Spartacus" and other works, often read aloud or tell stories to his comrades. During a fierce battle, he was seriously wounded in the head, but he overcame death with tenacity. His physical condition prevented him from returning to the front, so he immediately devoted himself to restoring and building the country. He did regimental work, purges, and devoted himself unselfishly to hard physical labor. The work of building railroads was especially hard; autumn rains, mud, snow, frozen soil, lack of food and clothing for everyone, open-air lodging, and there were also attacks by armed bandits and the threat of disease.
During this time, he and Tonya had a crisis of love, and Tonya's vulgar individualism turned him off. By the time he saw her again while building the railroad, she was married to a wealthy engineer. Paul in the railroad factory as secretary of the Communist Youth League, and the Communist Youth League member Lida in the work of frequent contact, the two gradually developed feelings. However, he mistook Lida's brother for her lover and lost the chance to fall in love with her.
At the end of the road construction work, Paul got typhoid fever and pneumonia, and the organization had to send Paul back to his hometown to recuperate. Halfway there it was mistakenly rumored that Paul had died, but for the fourth time Paul beat death and returned to earth. After recovering from his illness, he returned to work and joined the party. Because of all kinds of injuries and illnesses and forgetfulness of work and labor, Paul's physique is getting worse and worse, lost the ability to work, the party organization had to release him from work, let him long-term hospitalization. While convalescing at the seaside, he met Daya and fell in love. Paul continued to help Daya progress, while beginning to study tenaciously to enhance the ability to write. 1927, Paul has been paralyzed, and then blind, the ravages of the disease finally this full of passion for fighting warriors bound to the bed. Paul also once had the idea of suicide, but he soon came out from the trough. This paralyzed, blind and without the slightest writing experience, began his heroic career - literary creation. Enduring great physical and mental pain, Paul first wrote in a frame made of cardboard, then dictated himself and asked others to record on his behalf. With the help of his mother and wife, the novel How Steel Is Made, which he wrote with his life, was finally published in 1934! Paul picked up a new weapon and began a new life.