 The novel's protagonist, Levinson is a Bolshevik revolutionary who has a high level of political consciousness.The novel "The Young Guard" (1946), which received the State Prize of the USSR in 1946, focuses on an underground Komsomol group in Krasnodon, Ukraine and their struggle against the fascist occupation.The first years of the Soviet regime, from 1917 onwards, featured a proliferation of avant-garde literature groups.