Mother

Maxim Gorky pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov Soviet novelist playwright and essayist who was a founder of social realism. Although known principally as a writer he was closely associated with the tumultuous revolutionary period of his own country. The Mother one of his best-known works is the story of the radicalization of an uneducated woman that was later taken as a model for the Socialist Realist novel and his autobiographical masterpiece Childhood.