SOURCE: "Lenin and Gorky: The Turning Point," in The Positive Hero in Russian Literature, second edition, Stanford University Press, 1975, pp. 156-76.
In the following essay, Mathewson argues that Lenin's article Party Organization and Party Literature and Maxim Gorky's novel Mother together ushered in a new era in Russian thinking that revolved around Soviet literary ideals.
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