Ten Days That Shook the World · Character
Maxim Gorky
Russia's most famous living writer, Gorky leads the small Novaya Zhizn group, opposing Bolshevik tactics while refusing to abandon the Soviet Government.
supporting
Also known as Maxim Gorky, Gorky
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Listed as the leader of the United Social Democrats Internationalists (Novaya Zhizn group).
Maxim Gorky first appears in 0011 i background.
In Political Parties: Listed as the leader of the United Social Democrats Internationalists (Novaya Zhizn group).
Later, in II: The Coming Storm: His newspaper Novaya Zhizn urged unity and warned against premature insurrection.
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Character groups
- Diverse Revolutionary Participants
- Protagonist
- Provisional Government and Counter-Revolutionaries
- Socialist Revolutionary and Menshevik Leaders
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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