Gorky Plays: 2 : Vassa Zheleznova, The Zykovs, Egor Bulychev, The Last Ones (Methuen World Classics)

Book Description These plays, written in the years leading up to the Bolshevik revolution, are vivid portraits of the old bourgeois society of Russia in a state of dissolution, and the inevitable drift into the tragic and astonishing events of 1917. Chekhov described Maxim Gorky (1868a??1936) as, "the first in Russia to have expressed contempt and loathing for the bourgeoisie and he has done it at the precise moment when Russia is ready for protest."