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OTHER FIRES-Maxim Gorki-Appleton...
Best-known Russians today are Dzhugashvili, Bronstein and Pyeshkov-but not by those names. Stalin, Trotsky and Maxim Gorki are the famed pseudonyms they have adopted. Least potent but most popular of the three is Gorki, Red Russia's Grand Old Man of Letters. Long before the Revolution, when it was still in the lower depths, he hitched his wagon to the Red star; as the star rose, so rose Gorki. His birthplace, Nizhni-Novgorod (chief navigation centre on the Volga River famed for its annual fair and now the site of a state automobile plant) has been renamed...
...life has been passed. Two volumes called Bystander and The Magnet (TIME, April 14, 1930 & April 27, 1931) have appeared; Other Fires is the third, next to last. Proletarian novels (say strict Communists) must have no hero to stand between the reader and the hymning of mass achievements. But Gorki's epic novel has a hero, one Clim Samghin, who is the central character in all three books. Even strict Communists should not find him uncanonical, however, for Hero Samghin is no real hero but merely a convenient eyewitness of Russia's revolutionary tides, a horrible example...
...Author. Alexey Maximovich Pyeshkov (Gorki) is 65. If he had had his own way he would have been dead at 19, when he tried to round off a rag-picking childhood and 15 years of poverty-pinched wandering, by a bullet through his lung. An operation saved him. He began to write for provincial newspapers, under the name Maxim Gorki (from gor'kii, "the bitter one"), then sociological novels and plays. He joined the Social Democrats, later the Bolshevist wing, was arrested on Bloody Sunday (January 22, 1905) in St. Petersburg. Exiled till 1913, he lived in Capri, corresponding...
Impatient to get hair and start making felt at once, the Ministry of Light Industry dispatched a special barbers & felters shock brigade to Gorki (once Nizhni Novgorod), seat of the Soviet Union's biggest truck factory. When the brigade arrived Gorki was plunged in gloom. Officials had just turned in their year-end report, admitted that during 1932 Gorkites built only 7,500 trucks, compared to the Five-Year Plan scheduled production...