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New York : McBride, 1924. First Edition. Item #39240
First edition. Original cloth, 8vo, 320 pages ; 23 cm. Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, primarily known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist Gorky was active with the emerging Marxist social-democratic movement. He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime, and for a time closely associated himself with Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov's Bolshevik wing of the party. For a significant part of his life, he was exiled from Russia and later the Soviet Union. In 1932, he returned to USSR on Joseph Stalin's personal invitation and died there in June 1936" (Wikipedia, 2017) . The page right after the front cover has a piece missing, but the book is otherwise in Very Good condition. (AC-3-27).
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