My Apprenticeship

Historical Context and Significance

The book «My Apprenticeship» by Maxim Gorky is the second part of an autobiographical trilogy, which also includes the works «Childhood» and «My Universities». In this work, Gorky describes his youthful years when he left home and began an independent life. The book reflects the harsh working and living conditions of ordinary people in late 19th-century Russia, as well as the formation of the future writer's worldview. The book's influence on culture is significant in that it shows the path of personal development under conditions of social injustice and poverty, which became an important element of Russian literature and social thought of that time. Through his works, Gorky made a substantial contribution to the development of realism and socialist realism in literature, as well as to the formation of public consciousness, raising questions of social justice and human dignity.