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  Maxim Gorky Biography and Literary Works
Gorky was literary editor of Zhizn from 1899 and editor of Znanie publishing house in St. Petersburg from 1900.
Gorky became involved in a secret printing press and was temporarily exiled to Arzamas, central Russia in 1902.
The murder of Gorky's son in 1934 was seen as an attempt to break the father.
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 Maxim Gorky
Gorky became a Marxist but he was later to say that was largely because of the teachings of the village baker, Vasilii Semenov.
Gorky also upset other supporters by sending a telegram of support to William Haywood, the leader of the Industrial Workers of the World, who was in prison waiting to be tried for the murder of the politician, Frank Steunenberg.
Gorky failed to save the life of the writer, Nikolai Gumilev, who was arrested and executed for his support for the Kronstadt sailors.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUSgorky.htm   (3621 words)

  
 Lunacharsky essay on Gorky
Nor is his merciless indignation at the ruling evil of the middle class; nor is his firm belief in man, in his mighty culture, in his coming victory; nor is his bold call for courage and his stormy petrel, heralding the coming revolution, of the middle class.
Gorky did not want to lie to the poor, whom he considered to be his brothers, as "Chizh who lied".
However, Gorky, who spoke to the Russian reader in his deep, muffled voice of the terrible life of the poor, and whose stories were at times unbearable in their intensity, did not strike the reader as being bitter.
www.marxists.org /archive/lunachar/works/gorky.htm   (4950 words)

  
 RNG - Excursions - Moscow - Russian Writers and Poets
The novel is a work of political satire, featuring a visit to Moscow by the devil himself and involving all sorts of extremely clever digs at Stalinism, power, authority and human nature.
It seems ironic that The Gorky Museum is housed in a splendid art-nouveau style mansion that Bolsheviks stole from Stepan Ryabushinsky, chairman of the Stock Exchange, collector of icons and patron of the arts.
Maxim Gorky, father of Social Realism, seems to have enjoyed creature comfort.
www.russia-travel.com /excursions/moscow/writers   (946 words)

  
 Maksim Gorki
In his early writing career Gorky became friends with Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, and Vladimir Lenin.
When Anna Akhmatova's former husband Nikolai Gumilyov was arrested in 1921, Gorky rushed to Moscow to ask Lenin for a pardon for his old friend.
Gorky's speech at The First Congress of Soviet Writers in 1935 established the doctrine of socialist realism.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /gorki.htm   (2423 words)

  
 CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES MP3/WMA: Irina Chukovsky
She undertook her doctoral studies in the class of Professor Dmitry Bashkirov.
She has appeared as soloist with the Moscow and St. Petersburg Philarmonics, the Moscow State Symphony, the Tashkent, Sverdlovsk, Yalta, Gorky, and Kharkov Philarmonics, and the Seasons Chamber Orchestra.
Chukovsky made her American debut in 1991 as soloist with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra, Maxim Shostakovich conducting, and has also appeared with the Greenwich and Ridgefield (CT) Symphonies.
www.classicalarchives.com /artists/chukovsky.html   (913 words)

  
 Ted Grant
In order to supplement the family income, his mother took in lodgers, one of whom was Ralph (Raff) Lee, who had been a member of the South African Communist Party since 1922, but was expelled during the first Stalinist purges.
The young comrades of the WIL turned their backs on the failed sectarian methods of the past and turned their faces firmly towards the broader layers of the organised working class.
We were effectively expelled and we decided to turn our back forever on these gentlemen and face firmly towards the mass organisations of the working class.
www.engels.org /ted_grant/biografia/biografia.htm   (3969 words)

  
  Newegg.com - Image Entertainment, Inc. Childhood of Maxim Gorky Not Rated Foreign Films DVD - Retail
One of Russian's most influential and important literary figures, Maxim Gorky wrote his widely read autobiography in 1913.
Against a backdrop of tumult and poverty, the boy is shown in his formative 12th year, when he has just been put into his grandparents' custody.
Poor yet optimistic, the boy's grandparents are among the heartwarming lower class characters who prove that poverty does not have to equal despair.
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 Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovitch Pyeshkov) was born at Nizhni-Novgorod, Russia, in 1868.
The plays of Gorky are interesting chiefly because of the admirable qualities that go to the making of his fiction: realistic portraiture of the largest class in Russia, the serfs, and the low classes in the large cities.
Gorky, like other Russian novelists, is concerned rather with the delineation of human character and the questioning of life itself than with an artistic framework for his ideas.
www.theatredatabase.com /20th_century/maxim_gorky_001.html   (209 words)

  
 Maxim Gorky Biography and Bibliography at LitWeb.net   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Maxim Gorky (also written Maxim Gor'kii) was born in Ninzhni Novgorod (later named 'Gorky' in his honour).
Gorky wrote with sympathy and optimism about the gypsies, hobos and down-and-outs and he started to attack the society that caused the hardships.
Gorky based her character on a real person, Anna Zalomova, who had travelled the country distributing revolutionary pamphlets after her son had been arrested during a demonstration.
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 Maxim Gorky — www.greenwood.com
Description: Maxim Gorky, born Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov in 1868 to the low stratum of Russian society, rose to prominence early in life as a writer and publicist.
Gorky, who did not have a formal education, became famous in his country and abroad.
After a short period with the populist/narodnik movement, Gorky became disillusioned with the peasant class, and, instead, he chose the nascent class of workers as the vehicle for change.
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 Maksim Gorky {1868-1936} - Russia.com Discussion Forum
Gorky's father died when he was five and he was raised by his grandfather.
Gorky participated in the 1905 revolution, was arrested and promptly released.
Gorky's reaction to all of this was certainly not complacent.
www.russia.com /forums/literature-film/3360-maksim-gorky-1868-1936-a.html   (1446 words)

  
 Russia, Middle Class - JRL 12-7-06
Being middle class is most of all an issue concerning the general cultural and educational level of people.
It was the Russian middle class that in accordance with its own upbringing and sense of moral who amidst the chaos kept the country going.
For when it is admitted that there is a middle class in Russia after all, then both the domestic and external moral elite, lose their argument of ‘knowing better’.
www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/2006-277-10.cfm   (2535 words)

  
 Green Left - The bitter voice of social upheaval
Gorky did perform a useful service during the early years of Soviet power -- he interceded with Lenin (although a political opponent, Gorky was also a personal friend of Lenin) on behalf of intellectuals and moderate socialists (as well as less innocent casualties from the old leisured classes).
Gorky went into exile again in 1922, but his experience of the embittered emigres with their wild talk of Bolshevik “drinkers of Russian blood”, and his homesickness for Russia, drove him back to his homeland in 1928.
It would be fitting to leave Gorky with this parting honour as it captures the strengths of this writer/activist who was born and died an opponent of cruel authority, and who has left a minor treasury of literature.
www.greenleft.org.au /1994/162/8704   (999 words)

  
 Maxim Gorky   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gorky has been content to choose for his hero a young man who belongs neither to the inner circle of the aristocracy nor to the fringes of the proletariat, a young man who might have been living in any country of Europe or America.
Maxim Gorky takes a brooding orphan boy and a prostitute as the hero and heroine of this, his first novel.
Gorky was the link between the old and the new in Russian literature, His writing marked the beginning of an epoch, and epoch in which protest, and, later, optimism replaced the earlier writers’ fatalistic acceptance of the life of old Russia.
www.discoveringbooks.com /maximgorky   (3497 words)

  
 Maxim Gorky, "The Craftsmen of Culture," 1934
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) was born Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov at Nizhni Novgorod (now Gorky).
His subsequent novels were weakened a bit by the inclusion of long passages on the meaning of life.
And it is from the height of this great aim that we honest writers of the Union of Soviets must examine, appraise and organize our work.
www.historyguide.org /europe/gorky.html   (466 words)

  
 List of cruisers
CL-55 Cleveland class cruiser - 23 ships; seven sisters were converted to Independence class aircraft carriers.
CL-106 Fargo class cruiser - Two ships (11 were canceled because of the end of World War II).
CA-139 Salem class cruiser - Three ships; USS Des Moines (CA-134) was laid down as a Baltimore-class ship but converted to a Salem-class ship while under construction and nine ships of the class were either scrapped on the ways or never laid down.
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 Maxim Gorky: playwright bitter about state of society|27May06|Socialist Worker
Gorky was swept up in the changes in Russia that led to the revolution of 1917.
Gorky’s worker heroes are a little bit too heroic and separated from the mass of the workers that he half despised.
Gorky was inspired by the revolution of 1905 but dismayed by the divisions that followed it.
www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=8875   (802 words)

  
 Richard Wright's long journey from Gorky to Dostoevsky - Maxim Gorky and Fyodor Dostoevsky African American Review - ...
Gorky and Wright are the two modern writers who most inconvenience the cultural separatists and sentimental populists among their own people.
Ultimately the pressure of Gorky's "bitter" knowledge forced him to imagine and then to help canonize the positive hero of socialist realism, the universal proletarian who would replace the ex-peasant has-beens (byvshie liudi) of his early fiction.
An'Sue of "Bright and Morning Star," like Gorky's Nilovna, projected the fondest aspirations of an author who sought to be literary nursemaid to a folk culture which, in his experience, had yet to nourish a full human dignity.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2838/is_n3_v28/ai_16328152   (705 words)

  
 Haber's Art Reviews: Arshile Gorky, by Hayden Herrera
Gorky had also found a measure of happiness in the birth of two daughters and his second marriage.
Gorky's concentration was fierce and total." Even the flames echo the quivering line of his canvases.
She treats Gorky's great double portrait, as a child beside his mother, from the time of its gestation rather than as the finished work's place in the artist's development.
www.haberarts.com /gorkybio.htm   (2318 words)

  
 The Lower Depths Summary
The cultural and political activities of the Russian author Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) made him known in the Soviet Union as the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century.
Maxim Gorky, whose real name was Aleksei Maximovich Peshkov, was born on M...
Maksim Gor'ky initially achieved renown as a short-story writer and went on to become a prominent novelist, dramatist, and memoirist.
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 Kirov class cruiser
The Kirov class cruisers were six vessels built between 1935-1944 for the Soviet Navy: Kirov, Voroshilov, Maxim Gorky, Molotov, Kalinin, and Kaganovich.
After the first two ships, armor protection was increased and subsequent ships are sometimes called the Maxim Gorky class.
The Kirov served 1937-1974 in Baltic Sea, and was one of the few Soviet ships that survived World War II.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/k/ki/kirov_class_cruiser.html   (294 words)

  
 Vassa Zheleznova
Maxim Gorky's chilling 1909 study of a formidable matriarch who resorts to flmail, forgery, and murder to retain control of her family business -- and her family -- is the original Dynasty.
Gorky's 1935 version is the one most often performed; this production marks the first English translation (by Tania Alexander and Tim Suter) of the 1909 version.
Through it, Gorky criticized the meshchane (a pejorative Russian term for the urban middle class), the rise of petit bourgeois values, and the unchecked materialism that can destroy families -- a subject still timely in both the crime-ridden world of the new Russian capitalism and our own frenzied, who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire society.
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 Science Fair Projects - Kirov class cruiser   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kirov served 1937-1974 in the Baltic Sea, and was one of the few large Soviet ships to survive World War II.
She was part of the Light Battle Group together with the cruiser Maxim Gorky and nine destroyers.
During the Winter War, she battled with Finnish forts at Hanko and Russaro.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Kirov_class_cruiser   (450 words)

  
 Maxim Gorky. V.I. Lenin
A reference to the Fifth (London) Congress of the RSDLP (1907), in which Maxim Gorky took part as a delegate with a vote but no voice.
There is an error in Maxim Gorky 's account here which he subsequently pointed out himself.
Maxim Gorky came to know Lenin more closely in 1907 at the London Party Congress, of which he gives us a detailed description in the essay published in this volume.
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That was Gorky, most beloved of Russian writers, as much the reflection of the soul of Russia as Mark Twain was of the soul of America.
Gorky lived to see the October Revolution and to witness and participate in the establishment of the first Socialist Republic.
As a man and a writer, he never ceased to grow, and at the time of his death, he was the venerable dean of Russian writing, loved by the people of the Soviet Union as few writers in all history have been revered by the people of a nation.
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 The Zykovs   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Maxim Gorky was the preeminent advocate of critical realism in Russian literature, a political revolutionary, and ultimately one of Russia's most celebrated authors.
He devoted his attention to the lives of the underclasses (a radical idea for its time) as they faced the transition to a new, more complex "modern" world that was moving irrevocably toward revolution.
The award-winning company adapted Alexander Bakshy's translation to suit their own strikingly visual ensemble approach to theatre, and if at times Rogers's highly stylized production pushed right to the brink of inventive pretension, he smartly never crossed that line that would have sent it into the realm of overwrought theatricality.
www.oobr.com /top/volSix/thirtyone/gorky.html   (487 words)

  
 Gorky,Maxim Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a founder of social realism.
In the very act of describing a kind of a fall from humanity, Gorky expresses a sense of the strangeness and essential value of the human being which is far too commonly absent altogether from such complex civilizations as our own.
Maxim Gorky continues to be regarded as the greatest literary representative of revolutionary Russia.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Gorky,Maxim   (621 words)

  
 Haze Gray & Underway Photo Feature: Soviet & Russian Navy - Gun Cruisers   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1957 she was redesignated as a hulk and probably was employed as an accommodations ship.
The last of this once-numerous class of light cruisers, she was stricken in 1994 and was scheduled for use as a target ship.
Completed in 1952 as a light cruiser (Project 68bis), she was rebuilt with in the early 1960's with an M-2 Volkhov SAM system (NATO SA-N-2 'Guideline') replacing her aft turrets.
www.hazegray.org /features/russia/guncru.htm   (334 words)

  
 [Echo class survey vessel] | [All the best Echo class survey vessel resources at informationhunting.com]   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hecla class survey vesselThe '''Hecla class''' formed the backbone of the Bikini Dream Royal Navy's ocean survey fleet from the mid-1960s.
There are two classes of survey ship of the British Royal Navy known as the Echo class;
Echo class of 1957 Echo class of 2002 This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
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 Maxim Gorky. The People Must Know Their History!
These socialists have betrayed the working class so many times that we could omit all mention of them, were it not for the fact that they are capable of further treasons and treachery.
His theory spread, it organised the class consciousness of the workers, created a party of sterling fighters and gave the proletariat victory over its enemies.
This "History" is needed not only by the old fighters who are now hard at work building socialism, breaking down the resistance of ancient human inertia and people's mistrust of their own powers; it is needed not only to conjure up proud memories of their battles and victories.
www.marx.org /archive/gorky-maxim/misc/x001.htm   (1257 words)

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