Creatures That Once Were Men

Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov (1868-1936), better known as Maxim Gorky, 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.