...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...

... Venedikt Erofeev Maxim Gorky Leonid Andreev Liudmila Petrushesvkaya Socialist Realism postmodernism The aesthetic modes of narrative prose and dramatic theater, as in earlier periods, offered special opportunities in the twentieth century for the examination of conflicts between the individual...

.... 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...

... and the gospels motherhood peasants and serfs family life and family love Crosby Ernest Caucasus Crimea Roger Fenton Maxim Gorky Mikhail Lermontov Stendhal C2.P1 Tolstoy is often hailed as the father of the modern war story. In the introduction to Men at War, an anthology of war stories...

...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 details Ivan Bunin's relationship with Maxim Gorky. It explains that Gorky and Bunin have a strange relationship because for the first twenty years they were perceived as good friends when in reality, they were not. Gorky often played the same side with the same pleasure in the same...

... notes how Maxim Gorky was the first to address Mayakovsky as a great poet. Gorky Maxim Mayakovsky Vladimir futurism Liebknecht Karl Kuskova E D Lenin Vladimir Jakobson Roman Vladimir Mayakovsky literature Bolshevik Soviet cannibalism Soviet Moscow suicide Boris Pasternak Maxim Gorky I...

... nature's largesse, he instead emphasized intentionality and labor as sources of value. Whereas Tolstoy dealt in energetic and thermodynamic metaphors, Fedorov's program of regulating nature invoked the principle of fluid channeling. His intellectual legacy permeates Maxim Gorky's critical writing...

... for bridging the gap between the manuscriptor and the manual laborer. Xiao Hong Maxim Gorky Mao Dun Lao She temporality Anton Chekhov If the mere quantity of labour functions as a measure of value regardless of quality, it presupposes … that labour has been equalised by the subordination of man...

...This chapter establishes how the writer Maxim Gorky's return to the Soviet Union from European exile in 1928 to become a chief architect of Stalinist culture was a watershed in the history of the Soviet reception of foreign visitors. Making a tour around the USSR modeled on those of foreign...

... 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...

... as a setting for his critical commentaries on the pressing social issues of the day: the rise of populism, the consequences of the emancipation of the serfs, the beginnings of industrialization and urbanization, and the class tensions heightened by these changes. Maxim Gorky's play offers a glimpse...