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Title (English with transliteration) |
Maxim Gorky, 1868-1936 |
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Title (Cyrillic) |
Максим Горький, 1868-1936 |
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Biography (English) |
Maxim Gorky, 1868-1936 (pseudonym of Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov). Writer, playwright, poet, critic, editor. Born 16(28).III.1868 in Nizhnii Novgorod, died 18.VI.1936 in Gorki, near Moscow. |
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Chronology (English) |
at the turn of the century, active member and one of the leaders of the Moscow-based "Wednesday" group of Neo-Realist writers; in 1905, Gorky became a leading editor of the "Znanie" publishing house promoting Neo-Realist writers; supportive of the 1905 revolution, Gorky joined the Bolshevik faction of the Socialist Democratic Party in the fall of that year; Gorky took an active part in the satirical journal "Zhupel" hosting in the summer of 1905 one of its pivotal organizational meetings as well contributing to the journal artistically and editorially; in particular, Gorky was responsible for shaping the literary section of the journal; in “Zhupel,” Gorky’s texts were often featured alongside the artworks of the artists and associates belonging to the World of Art collective; during this period, Gorky also contributed to the satirical journals "Zhalo" and “Maliar” as well as to the underground press; he traveled to America in 1906 to escape arrest, and raised money for the revolutionary cause; he remained abroad until 1913 when a general amnesty was declared for political opponents of the regime; he was ambivalent toward the Revolution of 1917, and lived abroad again from 1921-1931; after his triumphant return to the USSR, he became a major spokesperson for Stalin’s Cultural Revolution; he played a major role in the First Congress of Soviet Writers and the promulgation of “Socialist Realism” in 1934; he died two years later in somewhat suspicious circumstances. |
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Portrait description |
Maxim Gorky, 1868-1936. From Library of Congress Prints and Photographs, Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA; http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print. Digital ID: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c00472. No known restrictions on publication. SJP-Photographs-Gorky~01. |
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References |
portrait: SJP-Photo-Gorky~01; article/chapter: I.I.Veinberg, “Gorkii, Maksim,” Russkie pisateli, 1800-1917 : biograficheskii slovar’. Moscow: Sovetskaia entsiklopediia, 1989-, vol. 1, pp. 645-657. http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSFETCH?fetchtype=fullrecord:sessionid=fsapp12-33269-fg9rgj; book: Scherr, Barry P. Maxim Gorky. Boston: Twayne, 1988. http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSFETCH?fetchtype=fullrecord:sessionid=fsapp5-60727-fg9s84cb-ulrqgz:entitypagenum=5:0:recno=1:resultset=3:format=FI:next=html/record.html:bad=error/badfetch.html:entity; article/chapter: Yedlin, Tovah. "Gorky, Maxim." Encyclopedia of Russian History. Ed. James R. Millar. Vol. 2. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Gale. Accessed 15 May 2008 <http://find.galegroup.com/ips/start.do?prodId=IPS>.; book: Yedlin, Tova. Maxim Gorky: A Political Biography. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSFETCH?fetchtype=fullrecord:sessionid=fsapp5-60727-fg9s84cb-ulrqgz:entitypagenum=10:0:recno=1:resultset=4:format=FI:next=html/record.html:b |
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Subject (lcsh) |
Authors |
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Subject (personal name (Cyrillic)) |
Горький, Максим, 1868-1936 |
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Subject (lcsh personal name) |
Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936 |
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Keyword (Cyrillic) |
автор |
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Geographic subject (country) |
Russia |
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Publisher (of the digital version) |
University of Southern California. Libraries |
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Legacy record ID |
satjrnl-m13 |
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Part of collection |
Russian Satirical Journals Collection |
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Part of subcollection |
People Collection |
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Type |
images |
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Rights |
Public Domain. Distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is attributed to IMRC, University of Southern California and source in the manner specified by the publisher. |
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Access conditions |
To consult material in print, contact IMRC, POB 4353, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353; telephone (213) 740-2735, fax (213) 740-8550 or email imrc@usc.edu. |
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Repository name |
Institute of Modern Russian Culture, University of Southern California |
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Repository address |
IMRC, POB 4353, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353; telephone (213) 740-2735 |
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Repository email |
imrc@usc.edu |
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Contributing entity |
University of Southern California |
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Filename |
SJP-Photo-Gorky~01.jpg |
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Archival file |
Volume29/SJP-Photo-Gorky~01.jpg |
