Loser of the Street: Aug. 13, 1990

MAXIM GORKY

The writer (1868-1936) who championed the Communist Revolution and Soviet- style socialist realism lost his address to glasnost. Gorky Street, Moscow's main drag, which was christened in his honor in 1932, was given back its 15th century name: Tverskaya Street.

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