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Why was Maxim Gorky arrested in 1901?
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Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky.
In 1901, Maxim Gorky was arrested following the publication of his revolutionary poem, "Pesnya o burevestnike" ("Song of the Stormy Petrel"). The poem appeared in the Marxist review Zhizn ("Life"), which was subsequently suppressed by authorities due to the work's content. Gorky was released shortly after his arrest and traveled to Crimea to treat his tuberculosis.1