Information about the author:
Olga V. Bystrova
Olga V. Bystrova, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Senior Researcher, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1542-2516
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Abstract:
The article is devoted to Maxim Gorky’s journalistic legacy. The writer’s anti-fascist articles from the first half of the 1930s reflected his concerns about the rise of Nazi ideology in Western society. The history of the 20th and 21st centuries has confirmed the validity of these concerns, demonstrating the ability of fascism to transform and mimic. Gorky’s journalistic legacy remains relevant in the second half of the 20th century and today. The collection of essays, pamphlets, articles, speeches, and letters by Gorky titled “For Peace and Democracy,” published in 1951, and the collection of his journalistic articles titled “The Transformation of the World” (1980) are still in demand. This article introduces the abstract of a report on the work of the Secretariat of the Main Editorial Board of the “History of the Civil War” from the A.M. Gorky Archive (Moscow, IMLI RAS) for the first time.
Keywords: M. Gorky, journalistic heritage, G. Dimitrov, antifascism, “History of the Civil War”, “On Soldiers’ Ideas”, journalistic collections, “For Peace and Democracy”, “Transformation of the World”.
