GORKY’S GREATEST MISTAKE: Who was the great writer really? (Documentary)
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On June 20, 1936, Stalin carried the urn containing the ashes of the man he had kept under surveillance for the last years of his life across Red Square: letters were opened, conversations were recorded, and a single copy of the newspaper Pravda was printed for him—a special, edited version.
How did Alexei Peshkov, a tramp from the Volga docks who shot himself in the chest at the age of 19, become Russia's most famous writer? Why did the "Stormy Petrel of the Revolution" greet October with horror and openly call Lenin poisoned by the poison of power?
What happened on Solovki in the summer of 1929, when a young prisoner spent an hour and a half telling Gorky the truth about the camp—and why did the writer, emerging from the barracks in tears, write a rave review?
Was the death of his son Maxim in 1934 murder and a warning? And did Gorky himself die a natural death?
This is a story about how a person bargains with their own conscience—concession after concession, silence after silence—and the price they ultimately pay for life.
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