In this A time so convulsive and terrifying that it plagues the European people, with the economic, political and institutional crisis that has been remembered since the Second World War, I am in favor of recommending, whenever I am asked, the eager reading of The Mother of Máximo Gorki.
Gorky reflects in this work the awakening of the working class, fighting for those derechos that are inherent to the human being and that, at that time, were trampled by Tsarism (Government, church, judiciary, police and army).
Gorky tells the story of pelagia, known as "The mothere ”, a character that symbolizes the awakening of the Russian proletariat to the socialist reality, said awakening led to a fight that would take the lives of some of the characters.
After the death of Pelagia's husband, who martyred her, both physically and psychically, until the moment of her death, her son, Pavel, he gets more reserved. Soon Pelagia would discover, after a meeting at her home, that the reasons for this state lie in her Political leanings, Socialist leader in factory working. Meetings were increasingly taking place over time, in which topics were discussed, which are being debated today, and which, little by little, they make the mother get out of that fear instigated by Tsarism to become, following the arrest of his son for political reasons, in activist, taking leaflets to his son's factory, transporting illegal newspapers to rural areas or transmitting socialist ideology to the working class.
Finally, Pavel and his collaborators are sentenced to prison in Siberia in a trial that would be called pantomime. Soon after, and when the mother is about to transport illegal political documentation again, she realizes that she has been followed by a Tsarist spy, being arrested and severely beaten.