Culture and the People

This collection contains the last essays of Gorky, which are related centrally to the theme stated in the title of this book-culture and the people. It is a representative selection from the voluminous publicist efforts in which the author was engaged during the last ten years of his life. Together with his book full of articles, On Guard for the Soviet Union, the present volume reveals a side of Gorky’s writing as necessary to an understanding of his work as his novels, stories, autobiographical volumes and plays. Some of the contributions are slashing polemics; many were written under the pressure of daily journalism, appearing in numerous periodicals, including the leading Soviet papers Pravda and Izvestia; all of them reflect the vigor and depth of Gorky’s literary talent