Mother

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"Mother" is a 1906 socialist realist novel by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that portrays a working-class woman's political awakening during the revolutionary ferment in pre-revolutionary Russia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
socialist realist novel
adaptedAs film
opera
stage play
alsoKnownAs Mat’
author Maksim Gorky
surface form: Maxim Gorky
centralRelationship mother–son relationship
countryOfOrigin Russian Empire
createdBy Maksim Gorky
depictsEventType police raids
political repression
workers’ demonstrations
depictsSocialClass factory owners
proletariat
firstPublicationForm serialized novel
firstPublishedIn Russian Empire
genre political novel
socialist realism
hasAuthor Maksim Gorky
hasProtagonist Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova
hasTitleInRussian "Мать"
influenced Soviet literature
socialist realist canon
literaryMovement socialist realism
literarySignificance classic of socialist literature
key work in Maxim Gorky’s oeuvre
mainCharacter Pavel Vlasov
Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova
narrativeFocus transformation of a passive woman into an activist
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableAdaptation 1926 Soviet silent film "Mother" directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin
1956 Soviet film "Mother" directed by Mark Donskoy
originalLanguage Russian
politicalOrientation revolutionary
socialist
publicationYear 1906
settingCountry Russia
settingPeriod pre-revolutionary Russia
subjectMatter factory workers
underground revolutionary circles
theme class consciousness
political awakening
revolutionary movement
role of women in revolution
social injustice
working-class struggle

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