Through Russia - Softcover

Gorky, Maxim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 153688751X ISBN 13: 9781536887518

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

A collection of short stories by the popular and influential Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and arguably the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century. He wrote stories, plays, memoirs and novels which touched the imagination of the Russian people, and was the first Russian author to write sympathetically of such characters as tramps and thieves.

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Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov (1868 –1936), better known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian/Soviet author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929 he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his re-turn to the Soviet Union he accepted the cultural policies of the time, although he was not permitted to leave the country. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Around fifteen years before success as a writer, he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the Russian Empire; these experiences would later influence his writing. Gorky's most famous works were The Lower Depths(1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl, The Song of the Stormy Petrel, The Mother, Summer folk and Children of the Sun. He had an association with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov; Gorky would later write his memoirs on both of them. Gorky was active with the emerging Marxist social-democratic movement. He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime, and for a time closely associated himself with Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov's Bolshevik wing of the party. For a significant part of his life, he was exiled from Russia and later the Soviet Union. In 1932, he returned to Russia on Joseph Stalin's personal invitation and died there in June 1936.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 153688751X
• ISBN 13: 9781536887518
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Ravell