Gorky, M. At the Bottom (Na dne), 1927. In Russian

М. Горький На дне
Драма
Серия: Дешевая библиотека классиков
Москва-Ленинград : Гос. изд-во, 1927 (Л. : тип. им. Бухарина)
88 с.; 17х12 см.
Тираж: 30 000 экз.
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Gorky, M. Na dne. [At the Bottom].
Drama.
Series: Deshevaya biblioteka klassikov (Cheap Library of Classics).
Moscow-Leningrad: State Publishing House (Gos. izd-vo), 1927 (Leningrad: Bukharin Printing House).
88 p.; 17x12 cm.
Print run: 30,000 copies.

This 1927 edition of Maxim Gorky's seminal drama "At the Bottom" ("Na dne") is a classic example from the popular Soviet mass-market series "Cheap Library of Classics." Published by the State Publishing House during the New Economic Policy (NEP) era, this series was designed to make literary classics widely accessible to the public. This compact volume (17x12 cm), printed at the "Bukharin Printing House" in Leningrad, contains the full text of Gorky's 1902 play, a profound exploration of the lives of society's outcasts in a homeless shelter. With a substantial print run of 30,000 copies, this edition played a role in the cultural dissemination of one of Russia's most important modern plays. As a typical product of 1920s Soviet publishing, it represents the intersection of cultural policy, affordability, and the promotion of a new literary canon in the early USSR.