Maksim Gorky

During the Trial of the Twenty One in 1938, NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda admitted that he poisoned to death Maksim Gorky and his son and unsuccessfully tried to poison future NKVD boss Nikolay Ezhov.

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Far from being an anti-Semite personally (two of his wives were Jewish) Simonov nonetheless wrote an article accusing the "cosmopolitans" of "putting [Jean-Paul] Sartre in place of Maksim Gorky and the pornography of [Henry] Miller in the place of Tolstoy."

In Stalin's Trap Frank, Joseph 2009

Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories, by Maksim Gorky

Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories 2003

The students had to read this literature in secret, though left-wing novels could be read more or less openly: among the favorites was Maksim Gorky’s Mother.

Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991

The students had to read this literature in secret, though left-wing novels could be read more or less openly: among the favorites was Maksim Gorky’s Mother.

Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991