Tag: Socialist realism

• Gorky in the lower depths of mother Russia

  Maxim Gorky was arguably the most famous writer in the world at the turn of the 20th century. His novel Mother inspired millions of workers for generations. His play The Lower Depths, was among the first plays to detail the lives of the lower classes in a very realistic, unromantic manner.  But Gorky is now more or less…

  rrameez

  February 25, 2014

  Arts and Modeling, Political Science

  1905, 1917, Bolshevism, Lenin, Maxim Gorky, Russian Revolution, Socialist realism, Stalin, Trotsky