Mother

In 2018, it is the 150th anniversary of Maxim Gorky, the great Russian writer, prose writer, and playwright—the classic of the 20th century.

Maxim Gorky is the literary pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov (16 [28] March 1868 — 18 June 1936)). Gorky made an outstanding contribution to Russian and world culture. He was one of the first to describe “another” Russia—the country of people belonging to the very lowest social strata. The reading public was introduced to a world unlike most of the worlds created by the writers of the 19th century. Gorky was a “romantic of the bottom”; he supported the Bolsheviks, but at first he viewed the October Revolution with skepticism. Later, he petitioned the Bolsheviks on behalf of those arrested and sentenced to death. He is considered the founder of the method of socialist realism in literature.

Listen to an audio version of one of Maxim Gorky’s most powerful works. The novel “Mother” was written in 1906 during his travels in the United States. The book has been translated into practically all major languages and remains relevant to this day. This work is an ode to the struggle with fear and victory over it— the story of how a person with a resurrected soul finds courage.