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Excerpt from The Confession: A NovelThe Russia that thought this and the Russia that Gorky awakened from its torpor by introducing to it again the people it had almost learned to scorn, show ing them with a capacity Of understanding ideas, with deep emotions and great courage, was the Russia that had settled back in bitter disappointment after the sad failure Of the Revolutionary movement of the eighties.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Russia's changes were Gorky's changes. He first flung his type of hero; the people from the lowest of the low—water-rats; tramps; petty thieves—into a discouraged; disappointed and hopeless Russia. It was a Russia that had almost decided that there were no more people; that they were without courage; that the misery and degradation in which they lived was there because of their own inefficiency; their lack of idealism; their incapacity to grasp an idea and to strike and fight for it.

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Gorky, Maxim. A Confession. Translated from the German by William Frederick Harvey. London, Everett & Co, 1910. 13 x 20 cm. 320 pages. Original Hardcover in protective mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of foxing. Maxim Gorky’s 1909 novel The Confession caused great distress to the Russian Orthodox Church, to Leo Tolstoy and to Vladimir Lenin – a remarkable distinction for a major Russian literary work. The Confession is the story of Matvei, who becomes a wanderer through Russia seeking a philosophy to live by. Its historical interest is the insights it provides into the Bogostroitelstvo or “God-building” movement that emerged in Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Maxim Gorky was born Alexei Peshkov in Nizhni-Novgorad in 1868 and died in 1936. He published his first story, Makar Chudra, in 1892 and was encouraged by writers such as Chekhov and Korolenko. Gorky grew up in a Russia dominated by an autocratic Tsarist system, the Russian Orthodox religion, and a culture that often involved violence, drunkenness and misogyny. Some of Gorky’s finest pieces exposed violence against women and the Jewish minority. Gorky was politically active in anti-Tsarist movements leading up to the failed 1905 revolution and then through World War One and the Bolshevik revolution. The Confession anticipates later debates in Bolshevism and in the early Soviet Union about the role of religion and what might replace it. (Source: Winsleys)