School (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798227096357)

Arkady Gaidar wrote the autobiographical story "School" in 1929. It describes the life of a fifteen-year-old boy, Boris Gorikov, during the years of the revolution and the Civil War. Events unfold in the quiet provincial town of Arzamas, where studying in a real school, rallies and battles become part of everyday life. The story tells of courage, character building and the school of life in an extraordinary time