Mayakovsky Vladimir. Selected Verse

USSR: Raduga, 1985. — 307 p. — ISBN: 5-05-00001-7-3.Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (July 19 1893 – April 14 1930) was a Russian Soviet poet, playwright, artist and stage and film actor. During his early, pre-Revolutionary period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement; being among the signers of the Futurist manifesto, A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (1913), and authoring poems such 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 created agitprop posters in support of the Communist Party during the Russian Civil War . Though Mayakovsky's work regularly demonstrated intellectual and patriotic support for the ideology of the Communist Party and a strong admiration of Lenin