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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Russian Bolsheviki are peeved with Maxim Gorky, famed Russian author, who now lives in Berlin. Once Gorky opposed the Bolsheviki; then he admired them, and became one himself. Later he got disgusted, ...

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868–1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (Russian: Максим Горький), was a Russian writer and political activist. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in ...

An Egyptian-Russian cultural symposium held at the closing of the 57th Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) last week ...

REMINISCENCES (213 pp.) — Maxim Gorky—Translated by S. S. Koteliansky, Leonard Woolf and others — Dover ($2.75). The grey old man was surely “the sounding bell of this world,” wrote Russian Novelist ...

"The ANT-20 was designed by Andrei Tupolev and constructed between July 4, 1933 and April 3, 1934. It was one of two aircraft of its kind ever built by the Soviets. The aircraft was named after Maxim ...

Text taken from The October storm and after: stories and reminiscences, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1967.1 Online here. Maxim Gorky wrote of the Russian revolutionaries that they were a phenomenon of ...