From 65438 to 0905, during the Russian revolution, Gorky actively participated in the proletarian revolutionary struggle, joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party and met with Lenin.
From 65438 to 0906, Gorky wrote two most important works, Mother and Enemy, in America, which made his creation reach a new peak. Mother is the foundation work of socialist literature, and the images of the protagonist Pavel and his mother Nilovna summarize the excellent qualities of Russian working-class revolutionary fighters in the early 20th century. On the background of 1902, the May Day Women's Parade in Sormo highlights the image of Barville and her mother Nilovna who consciously struggled for the cause of socialism. Under the education of realism, she changed from resignation to a firm revolutionary fighter, permeated with firm belief in historical progress, and embodied the creative principle of expressing reality in the development of realistic revolution, and was recognized as the foundation stone of socialist realism. Lenin praised the novel as a "very timely book" and proposed that it was "of great benefit" to Russian workers.
1In the autumn of 906, Gorky went to Italy from the United States and settled in Capri Island. Because of his work, he had a close relationship with bogdanov, then a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He participated in the activities of the progressives headed by the latter, and was influenced by his idealistic philosophy and the opportunistic faction of the party's "creationism". Gorky once accepted the creationism and published the novella Confession in 1908, which was severely criticized by Lenin. At that time, some papers and monographs published by him, such as the History of Russian Literature, also contained some wrong views such as "concept compound", "experience organization" and "creationism" to varying degrees. With the help of Lenin's criticism, he gradually raised his consciousness and broke away from the progressive group.
1907 in may, Gorky and Lenin attended the fifth congress of the Russian social democratic labor party held there.
In the summer of 192 1, Gorky went abroad for medical treatment because of his illness recurrence, and basically lived in sorrento until 1928. During his recovery, he tried his best to resist the ultra-left and sectarian mistakes of some groups such as Lapp through letters and interviews, and did a lot of work to train young writers and unite writers of different styles. He also worked hard to create, published his memoirs lev tolstoy and Close-up Lenin, and completed the autobiographical trilogy Childhood, On Earth and My University, describing the writer's journey from the bottom of life to the revolutionary road and the laborer's pursuit of truth and light.