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Moscow: Gos. izd, 1921. 70 pp. 13.6x18 cm. In original publisher's wrappers. Light soiling of the wrappers, private library stamp on the front wrapper, title-page, p. 3, and p. 25. Otherwise near fine. Rare. First edition. One of 5,000 copies. Scarce lifetime edition of the futurist poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky. One of the most active supporters of the October Revolution, Mayakovsky dedicated his satirical poem, 150.000.000, to the new Socialist culture and society. The work was written during the American intervention in the Russian Civil War (1919-1920) and was intended to hail the 150-million-strong Russian people's mission in the struggle against capitalist evil and, namely, the American president Woodrow Wilson. After reciting fragments of the poem at the opening of the All-Russian Union of Poets Club in Moscow (March 5, 1920), the author read the full text on the 4th and the 20th of December of the same year, at the Petrograd House of Arts and Polytechnic Museum in Moscow, respectively. The… Leer más