Tusi se faaauauina o lenei palakalafa - O Pavlenko o se tusitala tau i le taimi o le Soviet-Finnish War
1939-1940 ma le Taua Lona Lua a le Lalolagi. O le tusi "Le Fiafia" (1947; State Prize o le USSR) na musuia e lona poto masani i le taimi o le toefuataiga o le tamaoaiga o Crimea. O le toa, o le Komesina o Voropaev, o loo atagia atoatoa ma loloto. I le galulue faatasi ai ma Mikheil Chiaureli, na tusia ai e Pavlenko tusitusiga mo ata tifaga "The Vow" (1946; State Prize of the USSR, 1947) ma le "The Fall of Berlin" (State Prize of the USSR, 1950). Na ia tusia foʻi ni tusi se tolu o tusitusiga, "American Impressions" (1949), "Young Germany" ma le "Italian Impressions" (o tusi uma ia e 1951). O le tala "Steppe Sunlight" (1949) e manino ma manino i lana gagana, ma e manino foʻi lona faamoemoega. O le tusi a Pavlenko o le "Toilers of the World" (na lomia i se vaega i le 1952) e leʻi maeʻa.