Through Russia
By Maxim Gorky
1910
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Classic collection of short stories, THE BIRTH OF A MAN, THE ICEBREAKER, GUBIN NILUSHKA, THE CEMETERY, ON A RIVER STEAMER, A WOMAN, IN A MOUNTAIN DEFILE, KALININ, and THE DEAD MAN. According to ""Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov ( 1868 - 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky, was a Soviet/Russian 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 return to the Soviet Union he accepted the cultural policies of the time, although he was not permitted to leave the country.""
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Author
Maxim Gorky
Author · 55 books
Russian writer Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков) supported the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and helped to develop socialist realism as the officially accepted literary aesthetic; his works include The Life of Klim Samgin (1927-1936), an unfinished cycle of novels. This Soviet author founded the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. People also nominated him five times for the Nobel Prize in literature. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929, he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his return to the Soviet Union, he accepted the cultural policies of the time.
