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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков; [a] 28 March [ O.S. 16 March] 1868 – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky ( Максим Горький ), was a Russian and Soviet writer and socialism proponent. [1] He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. [2] Before his ...
Jul 19, 2024 · Maxim Gorky, c. 1900. Between 1899 and 1906 Gorky lived mainly in St. Petersburg, where he became a Marxist, supporting the Social Democratic Party. After the split in that party in 1903, Gorky went with its Bolshevik wing. But he was often at odds with the Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin. Nor did Gorky ever, formally, become a member of Lenin’s ...
Maksim Gorky and the Russian Revolution: The Crisis of 1910. The term 'crisis' is one which is often encountered in bio-. graphies of Russian writers. Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy - to mention only the most celebrated cases - each underwent, at. different times of their life and in different circumstances, a pro- found personal crisis which had ...
Jul 15, 2014 · Maxim Gorky (right) and Anton Chekhov in Yalta, Black Sea, 1900. Source: ITAR-TASS. He made many trips abroad to countries such as Germany, France, Italy and the United States, where he became ...
This is the first page of the essay about Stalin for the American reader. Gorky describes Iveriia, where Stalin was born, gives a short outline of the history of Georgia from the time of Alexander the Great, and mentions the peasants' and craftsmen's lives of hard labor. Evidently, his work continued no further.
Jun 6, 1996 · Gorky was an icon of the Soviet cultural establishment. He was hailed as the first great Russian writer to emerge from the proletariat, as a life-long friend of the Bolsheviks, and as the founder of Socialist Realism, the artistic doctrine of the Stalinist regime which said that the artist should depict Soviet life, not as it was, but as it should be in the socialist utopia.
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Stormy Petrel: The life and Work of Maxim Gorky, Appleton-Century, 1965, pp.88–95. This book both provides analysis of Gorki’s work and contextualization of that work in his life. Hare, Richard. Maxim Gorky: Romantic Realist and Conservative Revolutionary, Greenwood Press, 1962, pp. 56–61.
