Gorky, Censorship and the Jews

Lenin’s death in 1924 produced in the Soviet Union a flood of apologies, memoirs and eulogies, no less sincere because their author had criticized Lenin on previous occasions. Among them was Gorky, who paid tribute to Lenin in many moving pages. These writings have been frequently republished since 1924; there even exists a French translation by Dumesnil de Gramont. Gorky had a remarkable memory and was undoubtedly a first-rate story-teller. He relates several interesting conversati...