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Znanie became known as the most progressive of all Russian publishing houses directed toward broad democratic reader-ships. In 1904 the publishing house began issuing the Znanie Collections, which brought together short stories, novels, poetry and essays written by Russian writers, and by foreign
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In addition to publishing the collected works of young writers and the Znanie Collections, the Znanie Association issued the so-called Penny Library, in which the short works of Znanie writers were published. Gorky also carried out assignments for the
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During the period of reaction after the 1905 Russian Revolution many participants in Znanie left the publishing house. Gorky, forced to live abroad during this period, severed his ties with the publishing house in 1912.
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wrote that Gorky was aiming through these collections "at a concentration of the best forces of Russian literature." The circulation of the collections reached 65,000 copies. They included the works of Gorky,
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joined Znanie in 1900 and became its director in late 1902. Through Znanie, Gorky brought together many of the best known realist writers of the time. Znanie published the collected works of Gorky (9 vols.),
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morality. Gorky and Serafimovich, on one hand, used socialist realism; Andreyev and certain others, however, were subject to the influences of the decadent movement. After the
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The writers featured in the collections from 1905 to 1907 were united in their protest against tsarism, oppression, national discord, religious prejudice, and
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this difference became more marked. In 1911 principal editorship of the Znanie collections was transferred to
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Znanie initially published books for a mass audience on natural science, history, education, and art.
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and other members of the Committee for Literacy. It operated from 1898 to 1913.
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Maxim Gorky, Konstantin Pyatnitsky and Stepan Skitalets, 1902.
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Publishing company in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
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A Writer Remembers, Teleshov, Hutchinson, NY, 1943.
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St Petersburg
Russia
Maxim Gorky
‹See Tfd›
Russian
Konstantin Pyatnitsky
Maxim Gorky
Alexander Serafimovich
Alexander Kuprin
Vikenty Veresaev
Stepan Skitalets
Nikolai Teleshov
Emile Verhaeren
Vladimir Lenin
Anton Chekhov
Leonid Andreev
Ivan Bunin
Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak
Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky
Evgeny Chirikov
Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky

bourgeois
1905 Russian Revolution
Viktor Mirolyubov
Bolsheviks
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Paul Lafargue

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