Mother

Mother is a semi-autobiographical novel by Maxim Gorky from the year 1906; it Deals with the revolutionary struggle of the young worker Pawel and his mother. The work is considered the first and one of the most important novels of socialist realism. The novel was made into a film under the same title in 1936 by Vsevolod Pudovkin Illarionovich and Bertolt Brecht wrote a stage adaptation inspired by the novel.