Written: Written on May 6, 1921
Published:
First published in 1957 in Kommunist No. 18.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1976,
Moscow,
Volume 45,
pages 138c-139a.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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• README
Aren’t you ashamed to vote for printing 5,000 copies of Mayakovsky’s “150,000,000”?
It is nonsense, stupidity, double-dyed stupidity and affectation.[1]
I believe such things should be published one in ten, and not more than 1,500 copies, for libraries and cranks.
As for Lunacharsky, he should be flogged for his futurism.
6/V.
[1] The poem “150,000,000” had signs of V. V. Mayakovsky’s early futuristic trend: it was written in a mannered style and cast in a complicated form; he denied the classical heritage and extolled futurism as the only literary trend consonant with the times.
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