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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov [a] (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков; [b] 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1868 – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (/ ɡ ɔːr k i /; Максим Горький), was a Russian and Soviet writer and proponent of socialism. [1]
Under Tsar Nicholas II (reigned 1894–1917), the Russian Empire slowly industrialized while repressing opposition from the center and the far-left.During the 1890s Russia's industrial development led to a large increase in the size of the urban middle class and of the working class, which gave rise to a more dynamic political atmosphere. [1]
Tian-Shanskaia, and Olga Semyonova, eds. Village life in late tsarist Russia (Indiana University Press, 1993) Todd, William Mills, and Robert L. Belknap, eds. Literature and society in imperial Russia, 1800–1914 (Stanford Univ Press, 1978) Wood, Alan. The Origins of the Russian Revolution, 1861–1917 (Routledge, 2004)
The Life of Klim Samgin (1927–1936) by Maxim Gorky, a novel with a controversial reputation sometimes described as an example of Modernist literature, portrays the decline of Russian intelligentsia from the early 1870s to the Revolution as seen by a middle class intellectual during the course of his life.
The Russian Revolution of 1905, [a] also known as the First Russian Revolution, [b] was a revolution in the Russian Empire which began on 22 January 1905 and led to the establishment of a constitutional monarchy under the Russian Constitution of 1906, the country's first.
The early life of Joseph Stalin covers the period from Stalin's birth, on 18 December 1878 (6 December according to the Old Style), until the October Revolution on 7 November 1917 (25 October). Born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia , to a cobbler and a house cleaner, he grew up in the city and attended school there before ...
During the Russian Revolution a movement was initiated to put all arts to service of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The instrument for this was created just days before the October Revolution, known as Proletkult, an abbreviation for "Proletarskie kulturno-prosvetitelnye organizatsii" (Proletarian Cultural and Enlightenment Organizations).
Marxism and the National Question was not included in any one- or two-volume Russian version of Stalin's Selected Works (Russian: Вопросы Ленинизма, romanized: Voprosy Leninizma, lit. 'Problems of Leninism'), [30] which first appeared in 1926, or in any English-language translation of this book appearing from 1928 to 1954.