Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction IX
5. 1. A Writer’s Beginning 1
6. 2. Young Journalist and Critic 25
7. 3. Folklorist 41
8. 4. “Socialist Humanist” 61
9. 5. At the Revolutionary Smithy 88
10. 6. Poet of the Russian Revolution 114
11. 7. In Search of a Hero 133
12. 8. Artist; a Romantic and Socialist Realist 153
13. 9. Literary Relationships with Korolenko, Chekhov, and Tolstoy 172
14. 10. Between Two Worlds 195
15. Notes 199
16. Bibliography 227
17. Index 243