Alexei Maximovich Peshkov

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian writer and socialist political thinker and proponent. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gorky was active in the emerging Marxist communist and later in the Bolshevik movement. For a significant part of his life, he was exiled from Russia and later the Soviet Union and returned on Joseph Stalin's personal invitation after which, he was officially declared the “founder of Socialist Realism.”