 His autobiographical trilogy  – "My Childhood" (1913–1914), "In the World" (1916), and "My Universities" (1923) – describes his journey from the poor of society to the development of his political consciousness.His novel "The Artamanov Business" (1925) and his play "Egor Bulyshov" (1932) depict the decay and inevitable downfall of Russia's ruling classes.Gorky defined socialist realism as the "realism of people who are rebuilding the world" and pointed out that it looks at the past "from the heights of the future's goals".