The pattern of Socialist Realism follows a master plot. You know that a crisis must rise throughout the story. In How the Steel is tempered, we see Pavel’s own crisis and how he must overcome his crisis. But we also get to see the problems the Soviet Union had to deal with on a national level as well and how their leadership was very cruel to their infrastructure, particularly Vladimir Lenin. You also see how other members of the Bolshevik Party regarded him. As the Secretary of the Shepetovka District Committee said about him “Comrades! Lenin, the leader of the world proletariat, is dead! We have suffered an irrevocable loss, for the man who founded the Bolsheviks Party and taught it to be implacable towards its enemies is now no more. The death of the leader of our party and our class serves as an appeal to the best sons the proletariat to join our ranks” (447). Lenin was described as a true visionary to them, and one could even call a prophet. Could it be argued that the death of Comrade Lenin was the ultimate crisis the Soviet citizens had to face?
