The 1905 Russian revolution set a stage of political unrest for the nation at the outset of the 20th century, and academics and artists alike used the times as basis for work. Lenin and Kropotkin were among some of the famous Russian political theorists writing at the time, but the Russian arts had taken a massive blow with the death of Chekhov in 1904. Gorky, who would … [Read more...] about Gorky and Barbarians