... of the Revolution, Vladimir Lenin, and to the noble and pure Bolsheviks, Maxim Gorky and Sergei Kirov. The chapter suggests that they were specially created objects for the sublimation of fear and argues that the more bloody the era became, the greater the place occupied by the underground in mass imagination...

...This chapter focuses on the film Gorky Trilogy, directed by Mark Donskoi and based on the autobiography of Maxim Gorky. It suggests that Gorky's creation of a biography of a certain Alyosha Peshkov who really existed, and Donskoi's creation of the film trilogy which transformed...

...This chapter examines the three film adaptations of Maxim Gorky's novel Mother. It compares the directorial styles of film directors Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mark Donskoi and Gleb Panfilov, and their adherence to Gorky's plot. The chapter suggests that through these three Mother...

... Theatricalisation Voice Impersonation Orality Consciousness Polyphony Maxim Gorky Leonid Andreyev D. H. Lawrence the middle state of the writer, poised between his own idiolect and the vast sound-wave and sewage-wash of the language’s total availability (Heaney 1999 : 14) While the first chapter...

.... The authors she read included Marie Bashkirtseff, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky. After she moved to England, which at the time was undergoing its own passionate affair with all things Russian, Mansfield also discovered Russian art and Russian ballet. Later she...