Vladimir Ilyich Lenin by Vladimir Mayakovsky Amy Key a lucid and moving introduction

a lucid and moving introduction to a collective poetic subject that defies all kinds of social oppression

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin by Vladimir Mayakovsky Amy Key a lucid and moving introductionNever 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 in 1924, it proudly and passionately sets the story of the Bolshevik leaders life against the history of capitalism and the trajectory of Soviet communism. By turns declamatory, lyrical, journalistic and colloquial, the poem is an extraordinary record of the utopian excitement of the