Books by Maxim Gorky
My Childhood
by Maxim Gorky
Thoroughly illuminating about the life of an autodidactic peasant, which he was. The relationship with his grandmother is very touching and shows why Russian peasants of intellect would want to get out and change things. She suffered the usual male stuff – her husband would go to the pub and get pissed and then get upset with his missus about his own shortcomings.
Interviews where books by Maxim Gorky were recommended
The best books on Revolutionary Russia, recommended by Thomas Keneally
Best-selling author Thomas Keneally explains that the Cold War biographies couldn’t afford to say that Stalin was attractive, or that Lenin was magnetic, but they were, because otherwise people wouldn’t have followed them. He picks some great introductions to Revolutionary Russia.
