Showing posts with label Soviet Poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soviet Poetry. Show all posts

Sunday, April 14, 2024

Vladimir Mayakovsky — "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1924)

The great poem "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", dedicated to the leader of the 1917 Great October Socialist Revolution, was written by the 
renowned Soviet poet and playwright Vladimir Mayakovsky.  
 
The first fragments of the poem appeared in October 1924 in several Soviet newspapers, and it came out as a separate edition in February 1925 by Leningrad's Gosizdat. Mayakovsky himself dedicated it to the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).