Gorky

Author: Tong Yiqiu
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: Maxim Gorky (1868—1936) was a great proletarian writer and the founder of Soviet socialist revolutionary literature. Born into a carpenter's family, he wrote a large number of works in his lifetime. His representative works include Mother, which profoundly reflects the Russian proletarian revolutionary movement and successfully portrays a group of proletarian vanguard figures. It is an immortal classic in the history of world literature that depicts the proletarian revolutionary struggle. Lenin highly praised Mother, calling it "a very timely book. The works of Gorky are the common wealth of the worldwide proletariat and have brought great benefits to the world workers' movement." Gorky wrote realistic novels based on life, describing the hardships of the lower classes under the dark and corrupt autocratic rule of the Tsar, exposing the brutal exploitation of the bourgeoisie and their hollow souls, criticizing the morally degenerate petty bourgeoisie intellectuals, and striving to contemplate the meaning of life and explore new paths. His works laid the foundation for Soviet socialist revolutionary literature.