Mayakovsky on the Land
Journal: East European Jewish Affairs
Year: 2021

It is surprising that Vladimir Mayakovsky, the poet whose self-proclaimed mission was to give city streets a language, turned to publicizing farming collectives. No less noteworthy is the fact that this poet of internationalism worked on the ethnocentric project of promoting Jewish agrarian communities in Crimea. This article addresses Mayakovsky’s collaboration on the film Evrei na zemle (Jews on the Land, 1927), and his poems “Evrei (Tovarishcham iz OZETa)” (Jew [To Comrades from OZET], 1926)