Autobiography was Maxim Gorky's surest talent, but he did not discover it until he was nearly fifty. By that time he had found ways of using his great memory less to preach than to describe. As he ...

Time has knocked some ugly dents in the legacy of Maxim Gorky. Once revered as the patron saint of Soviet literature, he is now condemned as a demon of the Stalinist era who turned a blind eye to the ...

Although he was given a state funeral, Maxim Gorky died a conflicted man struggling to keep the balance between his artistic conscience and his loyalty to Stalin’s regime. On June 18, 1936, Moscow ...

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, (1868-1936), better known as Maxim Gorky, was a Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist. In 1906, the author, through a ...

150th birth anniversary of the great Russian writer Maxim Gorky is celebrated in Russia and all over the world. How well do we know his works today, they are still actual? Why his heritage still ...

When the revolutionary writer arrived in New York City, he slammed headfirst into a scandal. By Edward Sorel In April 1906, Czar Nicholas caved in to protests from around the world, and released Maxim ...

Was he a literary genius or simply Stalin's stooge? Public opinion on Russian author Maxim Gorky continues to be divided, even on what would have been his 150th birthday. Best-known for plays such as ...

The structure of Gorky's autobiography presented director Mark Donskoy with his greatest problem. A series of anecdotes, characters, observations, and philosophical reminiscences, the three volumes ...

Gorky's work can be both variable and politically crude, but his was an extraordinary and a serious creative life His long years as a Soviet-era icon consigned Maxim Gorky's reputation to the cold war ...

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