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Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Ivan Shishkin, Ilya Repin and Eduard Hildebrandt. A factory woman in a Russian mill town watches her son become a revolutionary and, after he is taken, takes up the work herself. Gorky wrote it in America in 1906 while raising money for the movement; Lenin called it a very timely book, and it became the model for a whole official literature that followed. Sixty plates by painters including Nikolay Kasatkin and Boris Kustodiev follow the same road from poverty and hard labor to the first stirrings of revolt.
Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Ivan Shishkin, Ilya Repin and Eduard Hildebrandt. A factory woman in a Russian mill town watches her son become a revolutionary and, after he is taken, takes up the work herself. Gorky wrote it in America in 1906 while raising money for the mov...
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Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) was the pen name of Alexei Peshkov, a Russian writer born in Nizhny Novgorod and orphaned young. He worked as a baker, docker and night watchman before his stories made him famous, was exiled twice, and returned to become the first head of the Soviet writers' union. His works include Mother, The Lower Depths, My Childhood, and Foma Gordeyev.
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) was the pen name of Alexei Peshkov, a Russian writer born in Nizhny Novgorod and orphaned young. He worked as a baker, docker and night watchman before his stories made him famous, was exiled twice, and returned to become the first head of the Soviet writers' union. His wo...
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