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The Mother’ by Maxim Gorky is a novel based on the Russian revolution. It is Gorky’s worldwide famous work on the Russian Revolution. The political agenda behind the novel was that he wanted to raise the spirit of the proletarian movement after the defeat of first Russian movement in 1905. He was trying to raise the spirit among the revolutionaries to battle the defeatist mood.
The novel demonstrates the plight of revolutionary factory workers at that ...
This book is a compilation of classic short stories by five great Russian writers - Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Ivan Turgenev. Though not necessarily representative of the authors’ complete works, the stories have been carefully chosen to showcase their versatility and skill as storytellers. The collection covers an extraordinary range of themes, styles and settings, allowing the reader to get a glimpse of another world gone ...