 Although critical of the old regime and compliant with the official dogma, it described the place as a run-down refuge for literary failures, desperate to assimilate the tenets of socialist realism, and allowing themselves to be closely monitored by political supervisors.The final portion of Aderca's work, which covers the period after the establishment of a Romanian communist regime, is focused on children's literature, as well as on biographical and adventure novels (or, according to Crohmălniceanu, "books for the youth, romanticized biographies and historical-adventure evocations").These volumes include the 1955 book "În valea marelui fluviu" ("Along the Great River's Valley"), a 1957 biography of Christopher Columbus and the 1958 "Jurnalul lui Andrei Hudici" ("The Diary of Andrei Hudici"), and a narrative set in Peter the Great's Russia ("Un călăreț pierdut în stepă", "A Rider Lost in the Steppe").