Lenin: Vladimir Ilyich - Softcover

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0995767513 ISBN 13: 9780995767515

Publisher: Smokestack Books, 2017

Synopsis

`Never have I wanted to be understood so much as in this poem,' said Mayakovsky of his 3,000 line epic Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Written immediately after the death of Lenin, it proudly and passionately sets the story of the Bolshevik leader's life against the history of capitalism and the trajectory of Soviet communism. The poem is a record of the utopian excitement of the early years of the Revolution - as well a warning that Lenin should not become an icon. It was Mayakovsky's most significant work; no other book of his was ever printed in such large numbers. When he read the poem to a packed Bolshoi Theatre in 1930 the event was broadcast live across the Soviet Union. Out of print in English for over thirty years, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin remains relatively unknown in the west, where Mayakovsky is predominantly regarded as a tortured love poet. Based on Dorian Rottenberg's 1967 translation, Rosy Carrick's new Russian-English bi-lingual edition re-establishes Mayakovsky's reputation as among the most important political poets of the twentieth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Smokestack Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0995767513
• ISBN 13: 9780995767515
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 202