Summary of “Good” Mayakovsky
The author claims a new “telegraphic” style. He says that epic times have passed, the genres of “epics” and “epics” have ended. The author’s goal is to create a book that would inspire the reader’s enthusiasm and energy.
Then follows the author’s memories of the time after the February Revolution. The people’s wings for the end of the war did not come true, the authorities are still in the hands of the rich, the people call for its overthrow and do not want to obey it.
In the royal palace built by Rastrelli, “some sort of sworn attorney” (Kerensky) has spread out. He is intoxicated with his glory and appoints himself “then to the military, then justice, then some other minister.”
The author in the form of a parody of Tatyana’s conversation with the nurse from “Eugene Onegin” describes the conversation between Madame Kuskova and her comforting PN Miliukov. Kuskova
The adjutant and Captain Popov argue about power. Lenin, according to Popov, is sowing turmoil. He himself believes that socialism needs a basis, a basis, and that first it is necessary to introduce democracy, and only then the parliament. The Bolsheviks are preparing for active action. In October, the Winter Palace is taken to the ring. Attack on the Winter is preceded by a volley “Aurora”. On the desert embankment by the fire the author meets the poet Alexander Blok. On the author’s question, what Blok thinks about what is happening, he answers only – “Very good.”
There comes a cold winter. Despite the frost, the Communists are kicking firewood on a labor subbotnik. The capitalists can not understand what this socialist republic is and what its features are.
Intervention. Admiral Kolchak is coming from the north, Wrangel has settled in the Crimea. Colonels boast to each other of their victories over the Bolsheviks and talk
The author, who is an eyewitness of all that is happening, says that he lives in the houses of Staheyev. Cold, hungry, a small stove is drowned in Shakespeare’s volumes. Everyone lives unbearably, but no one complains. The main goal now is to discourage whites.
The Reds are fighting. Wrangel is fleeing, the Reds are entering the Crimea.
Instead of an agrarian poor country, Russia is gradually becoming an industrial power. During the nine years that have passed since the revolution, they managed to build Lenin’s mausoleum and monuments. The poet remembers all those who gave their lives for the cause of the revolution.
Stores are working again, the goods have become more quality, prices are declining. The poet considers himself, like every citizen, the sovereign master of his country.
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