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Maxim Gorky
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Gorky's most famous works are his early short stories "Chelkash", "Old Izergil", and "Twenty-six Men and a Girl" (written in the 1890s); plays ''The Philistines'' (1901), ''The Lower Depths'' (1902) and ''Children of the Sun'' (1905); a poem, "The Song of the Stormy Petrel" (1901); his fictional autobiographical trilogy, ''My Childhood, In the World, My Universities'' (1913–1923); and a novel, ''Mother'' (1906). Gorky himself judged some of these works as failures, and ''Mother'' has been frequently criticized; Gorky thought of ''Mother'' as one of his biggest failures. However, there have been warmer appraisals of some of his lesser-known post-revolutionary works such as the novels ''The Artamonov Business'' (1925) and ''The Life of Klim Samgin'' (1925–1936); the latter is considered by some as Gorky's masterpiece and has been viewed by some critics as a modernist work. Unlike his pre-revolutionary writings (known for their "anti-psychologism") Gorky's later works differ, with an ambivalent portrayal of the Russian Revolution and "unmodern interest to human psychology" (as noted by D. S. Mirsky). He had associations with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, both mentioned by Gorky in his memoirs.
Gorky was active in the emerging Marxist socialist movement and later supported the Bolsheviks. He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime and for a time closely associated himself with Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov's Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. During the World War I, Gorky supported pacifism and internationalism and anti-war protests. For a significant part of his life he was exiled from Russia and later the Soviet Union (USSR), being critical both of the Tsarism and of the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War and the 1920s, condemning the latter for political repressions. In 1928 he returned to the USSR on Joseph Stalin's personal invitation and lived there from 1932 until his death in June 1936. After his return he was officially declared the "founder of Socialist Realism". Despite this, Gorky's relations with the Soviet regime were rather difficult: while being Stalin's public supporter, he maintained friendships with Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Bukharin, the leaders of the anti-Stalin opposition executed after Gorky's death; he also hoped to ease the Soviet cultural policies and made some efforts to defend the writers who disobeyed them, which resulted in him spending his last days under unannounced house arrest. Provided by Wikipedia
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Selected short stories by Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936
Published: F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1959Description: 348 pages ; 22 cm.Call Number: Loading…
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The petty bourgeois by Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936
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On literature by Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936
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The lower depths by Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936
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Creatures that once were men by Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936
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Foma gordyeff The man who was afraid by Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936
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Mother by Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936
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Reminiscences of anton chekhov by Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936
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Twenty-six and one And other stories by Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936
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The Moscow Art Theatre series of Russian plays by Sayler, Oliver M., 1887-1958
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Twenty-five modern plays Third edition /
Published: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1953Other Authors:Description: xx, 1008 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 25 cm.Call Number: Loading…Get full text
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Masters of modern drama
Published: Random House, 1962Other Authors:Description: xii, 1198 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.Call Number: Loading…
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