Articles and Pamphlets

by Maxim Gorky

MAXIM GORKEY - ARTICLES AND IN AMERICA The City of the Yellow Devil Realm of Boredom The Mob MY INTERVIEWS A King Who Borrows His Worth One of the Kings of the Republic A Priest of Morality The Lords of Life La Belle France PUBLIC WRITINGS Open Letter to Messieurs J. Richard, Jules Claretie, Ren Viviani and other French Journalists From the Foreign Chronicle The States of Western Europe Before the War Typical Program for Pamphlets Fat Mens Music Protest Against the Trial of Johannes Becher Inhumanity Reply to a Questionnaire of an American Magazine The Bourgeois Press The Wiseacres Old Fellows Cynicism. Reply to a Correspondent Logic of History Reply to a Questionnaire of the Magazine Vu Adult School in Smolensk The Legend of Compulsory Labour Reply to an Intellectual Capitalist Terror in America Against Negro Workers To the Workers of Magnitostroy and Others On Whose Side, Masters of Culture? Reply to American Correspondents The Old and the New Man To the Delegates of the Antiwar Congress A Speech That Was JTot Delivered Soldierly Ideas Proletarian Humanism The Fog. A Splendid Book On. Cultures A Thousand Letters To the Congress in Defence of Culture

412 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 2002

About the author

Russian writer Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков) supported the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and helped to develop socialist realism as the officially accepted literary aesthetic; his works include The Life of Klim Samgin (1927-1936), an unfinished cycle of novels.

This Soviet author founded the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. People also nominated him five times for the Nobel Prize in literature. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929, he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his return to the Soviet Union, he accepted the cultural policies of the time.

Reviews

[Meaad · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is more than just essays and pamphlets — it’s the voice of a real human being sharing deep experiences and struggles. Gorky writes with feeling, not dry theory.

His writings connect with the everyday person’s pain and hope. There’s a balance between thought and emotion, pain and hope throughout.

One story that stood out is “One of the Kings of the Republic” a poetic reminder that dignity matters even when everything else is lost.

This book is deep and thoughtful.
It makes you reflect on life, freedom, and our battles.