One of the most renowned Soviet writers of the twentieth century, Maxim Gorky was an early supporter of the Bolsheviks who became disillusioned with the turn of events after the 1917 revolution. This brilliant and controversial book is a collection of the critical articles Gorky wrote that describe the Russian national character, condemn the Bolshevik methods of government, and provide a vision of the future.

"An important book of as much interest now as at the time it was written."--Walter Laqueur

"Untimely Thoughts is now timely. Gorky's journalistic pieces are...

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A small provincial Russian town is suddenly aroused from its lethargy by the imminent arrival of the first railroad. Gorky is less concerned here with the Industrial Revolution than with the damaging personal effect of people who represent progress; in this case, two engineers who come to prepare for the railroad and who sweep into the lives of all and sundry with the force of a gale, upsetting stalemated romances, stale marriages, and the equilibrium of the petty bureaucracy.

"Mother" - was written in 1906 by Maxim Gorky while traveling in the United States. The story reflected the ideas of "god-building" literary evangelism. Gorky used biblical images and compares them with the contemporary figures in the socialist struggle.

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, Maksim Gorky, (1868 - 1936), was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist realism literary method and a political activist. But with the publication of "Chelkash" (1895) in a leading St. Petersburg journal, he began a success story as spectacular as any in the history of Russian literature. So great was the success of his literary works that Gorky's reputation quickly soared, and he began to be spoken of almost as an equal of Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov. In this book: Twenty-six and One and Other Stories Mother The Man Who Was Afraid Through Russia...

It is certainly a curious fact that so many of the voices of what is called our modern religion have come from countries which are not only simple, but may even be called barbaric. A nation like Norway has a great realistic drama without having ever had either a great classical drama or a great romantic drama. A nation like Russia makes us feel its modern fiction when we have never felt its ancient fiction.