Mayakovsky

This chapter explains that Vladimir Mayakovsky will remain in the history of literature of the Bolshevik years as the most base, cynical, and harmful servant of Soviet cannibalism. He highlights Mayakovsky's posthumous tributes, partly because of his influence on the Soviet mob. Thus, Soviet Moscow has repaid Mayakovsky for all his praise of the city, for all his assistance in corrupting the Soviet people, and in lowering their mores and tastes. Mayakovsky was useful even in his suicide, giving another Soviet poet, Boris Pasternak, a reason to address his beyond-the-grave shadow. The chapter notes how Maxim Gorky was the first to address Mayakovsky as a great poet.