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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Novel following the radicalisation of an uneducated young Russian woman, which went on to define the genre of Socialist Realism.

"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 ...

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