Mother

✔‘The mother’ by maxim Gorky is a novel based on the Russian Revolution. It is Gorky’s worldwide famous work on the Russian Revolution. ✔✔The political agenda behind the novel was that he wanted to raise the spirit of the proletarian movement after the defeat of first Russian movement in 1905.✔✔He was trying to raise the spirit among the revolutionaries to battle the defeatist mood. The novel demonstrates the plight of revolutionary factory workers at that time. ✔✔It is said to be semi-autobiographical as Gorky was related to the protagonists of the story. The novel revolves around a young Russian boy – Pavel Vlasov, involved in revolutionary activities, and his mother, whose motherly concern and urge to help her son leads her to get involved in the revolution. ✔✔Nilovna, despite being uneducated, overcomes her political ignorance and becomes the true protagonist of the story.