"He is the youngest son of a poor worker's family in a small town in Ukraine, Russia ..." What famous book does this passage come from?

Paul is the youngest son of a poor working family in a small town in Ukraine. My father died early, my mother helped others support their families, and my brother was a railway worker. When he was in primary school, Paul hated evil and dared to think and do it. Source "How Steel is Tempered". The novel How Steel was Tempered (Russian: казакалласьстал) was written by Pavel Colta King. Revolutionaries are tempered into steel in struggle, which is an important theme of the novel.