Maxim Gorky / Макси́м Го́рький (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov)
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Russian Soviet writer, prose writer, playwright, founder of socialist realism, political activist, initiator of the creation of the USSR Writers' Union, first chairman of the board of that union.
The flourishing of the writer's creative biography was marked by a series of essays, autobiographical novels, plays, two major novels, as well as stories of the publicist documentary genre.
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The main pathos of Gorky's works was the dreams of "new people" who were fearless, free, had high mental and physical abilities, exceeded all possibilities and could achieve the ultimate goal, not ruling out immortality.
Gorky is the most widely published Soviet writer in the USSR. The total circulation of 3,556 publications between 1918 and 1986 was 242,621 million copies.
If we take into account all Russian writers, Gorky is second only to NKR Tolstoy and Alexander Pushkin.