WHY ALL NEW YORK HOTELS TURNED AWAY FAMOUS SOVIET WRITER MAXIM GORKY by Robert Shuman

(Alexandra Guzeva's article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 1/28.) America in the early 20th century turned out to be an even more puritan country than Russia. In the spring of 1906, Maxim Gorky, "the voice of the Russian revolution", who would later become one of the Soviet Union's greatest writers, arrived in America, accompanied […]

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