This paper is a book report describing Anatoli Rybakov's book, Children of the Arbat. The novel is about the lives of a group of friends and relatives living in the Arbat section of Moscow during the 1930s. The main plot concerns a dedicated young Communist whose unfortunate ties to higher-ups in the Party lead him to become arrested and exiled to Siberia for no valid reason. Through the course of the novel, we see most of the friends lose their early romantic idealism, though some regain it in human relationships with friends and lovers.
