About the book: 1964 / This book contains three works by A. M. Gorky. The novel "The Artamonov Case" is the history of Russian capitalism, the history of a dying race , showing how the position of the “masters of life” disfigures and spiritually destroys people, turns them from masters of the “business” into its slaves. The plot of the novel is based on the development of the Artamonov case. With great artistic power, Gorky showed how slowly but inevitably the process of workers becoming aware of their class interests takes place. The essays “On the Union of Soviets” are the discovery of a new world born of the revolution, this is a story about new, Soviet people. “V. I. Lenin" is a literary portrait of the leader of the revolution. The old world, the morning of the new world and the greatest man of our era, standing on the tower of world history, rise from the pages of this work.