Maxim Gorky
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Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) ( Old Style: March 28,1868, New style: March 16–June 18, 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Soviet/Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. 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, although he was not permitted to leave the country.
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A portrait
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Maxim Gorky and Joseph Stalin, 1931
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A postage stamp from 1946 (from the Soviet Union
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Another Sovjet postage stamp from 1968
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Path to happiness is work, by Maxim Gorky
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