A Confession is a 1908 short novel by Maxim Gorky. It first appeared in the Znaniye compilation (book 23, Saint Petersburg) and almost simultaneously came out as a separate edition via the Ladyzhnikov Publishers in Berlin. The tale of Matvey, a pilgrim, was based upon the reallife story of a religious sectarian in Nizhny Novgorod, and an article on him by BogdanStepanets, a tutor at the local seminary. Later, in a sketch called "On the Edge of the World", Gorky mentioned another source, the manuscript by a Levonty Pomorets, which the writers friend S.G. Somov brought with him from his Siberian exile. The novel, written in the times when Gorky became keenly interested in the new quasireligious GodBuilding movement, horrified Vladimir Lenin who on several occasions criticized the attempts to unite Socialism and Christianity, mentioning A Confession. Gorky explained "I am an atheist. In A Confession the idea was to show the means by which man could progress from individualism to the collectivist understanding of the world. The main character sees Godbuilding as an attempt to reconstruct social life according to the spirit of collectivism, the spirit of uniting the people on their way to one common goal liberating man from slavery, within and without." (wikipedia.org)

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