Maxim Gorky and the Russian Revolution. (the Russian writer and intellectual may have been murdered on Stalin's orders) From: History Today | Date: June 1, 1996| Author: Figes, Orlando | COPYRIGHT 1996 History Today Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Gorky is an icon and an institution in Soviet Russia but the underlying truth is something different. His growing disputes with Stalin and the bolsheviks over the use of violence, totalitarianism, and the place of intellectuals, may have caused his political isolation and eventual murder.

Among the portraits of Soviet heroes that used to hang in every Russian school and library the one of Maxim Gorky was nearly always given pride of place with Lenin. Gorky was an icon of the Sovie...

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