Young Guard
In 1945, he wrote the novel, "The Young Guard" (based upon real events of World War II) about the underground Komsomol organization named Young Guard, which fought against the Nazis in the occupied city Krasnodon (in the Ukrainian SSR). For this novel, Fadeyev was awarded the Stalin Prize (1946). In 1948, a Soviet film "The Young Guard", based on the book, was released, and later revised in 1964 to correct inaccuracies in the book.