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Author: Maxim Gorki
First Published: 1906
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Naturalism
Time of Work: First decade of the twentieth century
Setting: Russia
Genres: Long fiction, Naturalistic literature
Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Communism or communists, Prisoners, Revolutionaries, Twentieth century, Revolutions, Trials, Lower classes, Russia or Russian people, Peasantry or peasants, Proletariat, Russian Revolution, Propaganda
Locales: Russia

Pelagueya Vlasova (peh-luh- GEH-yuh VLAH-so-vuh), a revolutionary heroine. Fearing that her son, Pavel Vlasov, will be forced into the brutal, dehumanized life of the factory, she begins to notice with joy that, unlike the other workers, he is given to reading. When she meets Pavel’s close friends, dedicated socialists, her love for him and for them leads her into the revolutionary movement, to which she becomes passionately devoted. Her life takes on new meaning as she gives herself to the cause for which Pavel and his friends are willing to sacrifice so...

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