Describes the life and works of Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist, playwright and short-story writer. Gorky's works describe the shortcomings he saw in Russian life before the Communist Revolution of 1917. Having had very little schooling, he was largely self-educated as he had been forced to support himself from the age of 10. He roamed throughout Russia basing his stories on people he met and by the late 1890's had become internationally famous through his writings.
"Writer, dramatist, and political activist Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov is better known by his pen name, Maxim Gorky. The choice of Gorky (literally "bitter" in Russian) as pseudonym reflected his anger about life in Russia and a determination to speak the bitter truth. Gorky wrote incessantly, viewing literature as a moral and political act that could change the world. At the heart of all his work was a belief in the inherent worth of the human person, but he struggled to resolve his contradictory feelings of faith and skepticism, love of life and disgust at the vulgarity and pettiness of the human world."
"Extensive use of archival film shows the life and times of Russian writer Maxim Gorky, from his early experiences in his birthplace, Nizhniy Novogorod, his Italian sojourn on the Isle of Capri, and his return to live in Moscow, until his death aged 68 in 1936. Literary and political giants who came into his life include Chaliapin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Lenin, and Stalin."
"Describes the life and works of Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist, playwright and short-story writer. Gorky's works describe the shortcomings he saw in Russian life before the Communist Revolution of 1917. Having had very little schooling, he was largely self-educated as he had been forced to support himself from the age of 10. He roamed throughout Russia basing his stories on people he met and by the late 1890's had become internationally famous through his writings."@en
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