Wizerunek Władimira Majakowskiego w sowieckiej propagandzie kulturalnej w latach 1953–1957
The image of Vladimir Mayakovsky in the soviet cultural propaganda in a period of 1953–1957

Summary/Abstract: The paper concerns components of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s image useful in the Soviet cultural propaganda during the first stag after Joseph Stalin’s death. Exceptionally popular already during his lifetime, after his death the poet was considered a father of the literature of the new Communist world, besides Maxim Gorky, and the greatest amongst the Soviet poets. The research material consists of articles about the culture published in the newspaper ‘Pravda’ in 1953–1957. About 2% of them concerned Mayakovsky. This high percentage rate, taking into account that they concerned a single poet against a background of the entire cultural, and not only literary, life of the Soviet Union, results from the fact that this person “served” simultaneously several fields of interest, where “the old” opposed “the new.” Mayakovsky was an embodiment of a specifically understood “citizenship” and commitment, which was set against the lack of any ideology in trends from outside of the Socialist realism stream, he was also an epitome of the fight itself and, finally, a personified negation of the thesis about the rigidity and stuffiness of the Socialist realism.

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