THE BIRTH OF A MAN, THE ICEBREAKER, GUBIN NILUSHKA, THE CEMETERY, ON A RIVER STEAMER, A WOMAN, IN A MOUNTAIN DEFILE, KALININ, and THE DEAD MAN. According to ""Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov ( 1868 - 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky, was a Soviet/Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929 he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his return to the Soviet Union he accepted the cultural policies of the time, although he was not permitted to leave the country.""
