Speech at the Gorky Death Anniversary Commemoration Meeting[1]

(June 20, 1937)

Gorky possessed a spirit of practical struggle and a farsighted political vision. He was not only a revolutionary man of letters, but also a very fine statesman.

[1] On the evening of June 20, 1937, the Soviet Area Literary and Art Association held a meeting to commemorate the first anniversary of Gorky's death. Mao Zedong attended and delivered a speech. This is an excerpt from Mao Zedong's speech at the meeting.