Publisher's Synopsis
Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian: Алексе´й Макси´мович Пешко´в) (1868-1936), better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Russian/Soviet 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.
