Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te mea he kaituhi angitu, he kaiwhakaputa, he kaituhi whakaari, i tautoko a Gorky i te Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), me te tautoko i nga piira a te rangatira ki te kawanatanga mo nga tika tangata me te whakahoutanga hapori. Ko te pupuhi nanakia o nga kaimahi e haere ana ki te Tsar me te petihana mo te whakahou i te 9 o Hanuere 1905 (e mohiotia ana ko te
"Rātapu Toto"), i whakatakoto i te Revolution o 1905, te ahua nei kua akiaki a Gorky kia kaha ake ki nga otinga whakahirahira. I honoa ia ki a Vladimir Lenin me te parirau Bolshevik a Alexander Bogdanov o te roopu, me te kawenga a Bogdanov mo te whakawhiti moni mai i a Gorky ki a Vpered. Kaore i te maarama mena i uru atu ia ki te whakauru, ana ko ona hononga ki a Lenin me nga Bolsheviks ka raru tonu. Ko ana tuhinga tino whai mana i enei tau ko te raupapa o nga mahi torangapu, ko te mea rongonui ko "The Lower Depths" (1902). I a ia e mauheretia ana i roto i te Peter me Paul Fortress i te 1905 Russian Revolution, i tuhi a Gorky i te whakaari "Children of the Sun", i whakaritea i te wa o te mate pukupuku o te 1862, engari i mohio te katoa ki nga huihuinga o tenei ra. I tukuna ia mai i te whare herehere i muri i te pakanga a Europi, i tautokohia e Marie Curie, Auguste Rodin me Anatole France, me etahi atu.