At head of title: Maxim Gorky.

"This collection contains the last essays of Gorky which are related centrally to the ... title of this book." -- Publisher's note.

Ten years.--To the anonymous and pseudonymous.--The red army.--On the literature of the white émigrés.--Philistinism.--Anti-Semitism.--On the "Good life."--If the enemy does not surrender he must be destroyed.--"The people must know their history!"--About the little old men.--Reply to an intellectual.--A letter to the workers of the Magnitostroi.--On anecdotes.--The old man and the the new.--About "soldierly" ideas.--Soviet intellectuals.--Humanism and culture.--We must know the past.--Outstanding dates in Gorky's life.