Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (/ËŒmÉ'Ë jəˈkÉ"Ë fski,-ˈkÉ'f-/;
Russian: Ð'Ð»Ð°Ð´Ð¸Ì Ð¼Ð¸Ñ€ Ð'Ð»Ð°Ð´Ð¸Ì Ð¼Ð¸Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡
ÐœÐ°Ñ ÐºÐ¾Ì Ð²Ñ ÐºÐ¸Ð¹; 19 July [O.S. 7 July] 1893 â€" 14 April 1930)
was a Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist, and actor.During
his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became
renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement. He
co-signed the Futurist manifesto, A Slap in the Face of Public Taste
(1913), and wrote such poems as "A Cloud in Trousers" (1915) and
"Backbone Flute" (1916). Mayakovsky produced a large and diverse body
of work during the course of his career: he wrote poems, wrote and
directed plays, appeared in films, edited the art journal LEF, and
produced agitprop posters in support of the Communist Party during the
Russian Civil War of 1917-1922. Though Mayakovsky's work regularly
demonstrated ideological and patriotic support for the ideology of the
Bolsheviks and a strong admiration of Vladimir Lenin, 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 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.In 1930 Mayakovsky committed suicide.
Even after death his relationship with the Soviet state remained
unsteady. Though Mayakovsky had previously been harshly criticized by
Soviet governmental bodies such as the Russian Association of
Proletarian Writers (RAPP), Premier Joseph Stalin described Mayakovsky
after his death as "the best and the most talented poet of our Soviet
epoch".
Russian: Ð'Ð»Ð°Ð´Ð¸Ì Ð¼Ð¸Ñ€ Ð'Ð»Ð°Ð´Ð¸Ì Ð¼Ð¸Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡
ÐœÐ°Ñ ÐºÐ¾Ì Ð²Ñ ÐºÐ¸Ð¹; 19 July [O.S. 7 July] 1893 â€" 14 April 1930)
was a Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist, and actor.During
his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became
renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement. He
co-signed the Futurist manifesto, A Slap in the Face of Public Taste
(1913), and wrote such poems as "A Cloud in Trousers" (1915) and
"Backbone Flute" (1916). Mayakovsky produced a large and diverse body
of work during the course of his career: he wrote poems, wrote and
directed plays, appeared in films, edited the art journal LEF, and
produced agitprop posters in support of the Communist Party during the
Russian Civil War of 1917-1922. Though Mayakovsky's work regularly
demonstrated ideological and patriotic support for the ideology of the
Bolsheviks and a strong admiration of Vladimir Lenin, 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 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.In 1930 Mayakovsky committed suicide.
Even after death his relationship with the Soviet state remained
unsteady. Though Mayakovsky had previously been harshly criticized by
Soviet governmental bodies such as the Russian Association of
Proletarian Writers (RAPP), Premier Joseph Stalin described Mayakovsky
after his death as "the best and the most talented poet of our Soviet
epoch".
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