No Ordinary Summer - 2

It was during World War II that Konstantin Fedin began work on a group of related novels about the October Revolution and the Civil War in Russia. After Early Joys appeared No Ordinary Summer, justly considered one of the finest works of Soviet literature. Said Fedin about No Ordinary Summer: "The old world was shaken to its foundations by the October Socialist Revolution. I wanted to show this tremendous historical act refracted through the psychology of the many characters of all sorts and from all walks of life." The main theme of the novel is expressed in the life stories of Izvekov and Ragozin. It is through them history is interpreted and the future envisaged.