Maxim Gorky died on 18 June 1936 in Gorki-10, aged 68. A Russian and Soviet writer, born Alexei Peshkov, Gorky took his pen name, which means bitter, after a childhood of poverty and a youth spent wandering Russia in many odd jobs. His early stories and the play The Lower Depths, about the poor of a night shelter, made him famous, and his novel Mother became an important text for the revolutionary movement. He supported the revolutionary cause but criticized the Bolsheviks after 1917, and spent many years abroad, mainly in Italy. After his return to the Soviet Union in the early 1930s he was celebrated as a founder of socialist realism and became the first head of the Union of Soviet Writers.
Before and after
- 28 March 1936Birth of Mario Vargas Llosa
- from 19 April 1936 to 26 August 19391936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
- 9 May 1936Birth of Glenda Jackson
- 17 May 1936Birth of Dennis Hopper
- 18 June 1936Death of Maxim Gorky
- 30 June 1936Publication of Gone with the Wind
- 8 July 1936Construction of Frankfurt Airport
- from 18 July 1936 to 1 April 1939Spanish Civil War
- from 21 July 1936 to 27 September 1936Siege of the Alcázar
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- 1920Christ the Redeemer
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- 1932Rise of socialist realism
- c. 1940sRise of abstract expressionism
- 15 January 1943Construction of The Pentagon
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