Lenin: Vladimir Ilyich

by Vladimir Mayakovsky

Book Overview

'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's in 1924, it proudly and passionately sets the story of the Bolshevik leader's 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0995767513
• ISBN13: 9780995767515
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Smokestack Books
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.7"