Gorky and the Russian Revolution

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

From the archives (1996): Orlando Figes on Maxim Gorky and the Russian Revolution.

Maxim Gorky and the Russian Revolution | History Today

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Maxim Gorky was revered as the leading Russian artist and intellectual associated with the 1917 Revolution throughout the lifetime of the Soviet Union. But did he really approve of Lenin and the Soviet experiment?...