Лирика Маяковского в «год великого перелома»: три текста

Leonid Bol’shukhin, Maria Alexandrova: Lyrics by Majakovskij in the “Year of the Great Breakthrough”: Three Texts

The article is dedicated to three major texts written by Majakovskij in 1929, the year preceding his death: “Razgovor s tovariščem Leninym” (“A Conversation with Comrade Lenin”), “Rasskaz Chrenova o Kuzneckstroe i o ljudjach Kuznecka” (“Chrenov’s Story about Kuzneckstroj and the People of Kuzneck”), and “Stichi o sovetskom pasporte” (“A Poem on the Soviet Passport”). The official literary criticism of the Soviet era regarded them as pieces of well­behaved, exemplary Soviet poetry. Subsequently, they were perceived as tendentious, which continues to be the received view in contemporary criticism.