Vladimir Mayakovsky: Difference between revisions

Though Mayakovsky's work regularly demonstrated ideological and patriotic support for the ideology of the Bolsheviks and a strong admiration of [[Vladimir Lenin]],<ref>{{Cite book |title = Selected Works in Three Volumes |last = Mayakovsky |first = Vladimir |publisher = Raduga Publishers |year = 1985 |isbn = 5-05-00001 7-3 |location = USSR |pages = [https://archive.org/details/selectedworksint00maya/page/238 238] |volume = 1 (Selected Verse) |others = English poem trans. Irina Zheleznova |chapter = Conversation with Comrade Lenin |quote = On snow-covered lands / and stubbly fields, / in smoky plants / and on factory sites, / with you in our hearts, / Comrade Lenin, / we think, / we breathe, / we live, / we build, / and we fight! |chapter-url-access = registration |chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/selectedworksint00maya/page/238}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title = The Bedbug and Selected Poetry |last = Mayakovsky |first = Vladimir |publisher = Meridian Books |year = 1960 |isbn = 978-0253201898 |location = New York |pages = 231–235 |others = trans. Max Hayward and George Reavey |chapter = At the Top of My Voice |quote = When I appear / before the CCC / of the coming / bright years, / by way of my Bolshevik party card, / I’ll raise / above the heads / of a gang of self-seeking / poets and rogues, / all the hundred volumes / of my / communist-committed books.}}</ref> his relationship with the Soviet state was always complex and often tumultuous. Mayakovsky often found himself engaged in confrontation with the increasing involvement of the Soviet state in [[Censorship in the Soviet Union|cultural censorship]] and the development of the State doctrine of [[Socialist realism]]. Works that criticized or satirized aspects of the Soviet system, such as the poem "Talking With the Taxman About Poetry" (1926), and the plays ''[[The Bedbug]]'' (1929) and ''[[The Bathhouse]]'' (1929), met with scorn from the Soviet state and literary establishment.

 

{{Cite book |title = Manufacturing Culture: The Soviet State and the Mayakovsky Legend 1930–1993 |last = Sundaram |first = Chantal |publisher = National Library of Canada: Acquisitions and Bibliographical Services |year = 2000 |isbn = 0-612-50061-6 |location = Ottawa, Canada |pages = 71, 85}}

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