“The Futurist Vision: Mayakovski’s Role in Russian Avant-Garde Literature”

Abstract

Political upheaval, radical art, and cultural identity searches characterized the early 20th century. Vladimir Mayakovsky inspired Russian avant-garde and futurism. It investigates how Mayakovsky's revolutionary poetics, public character, and visual innovations transformed Russian literature and developed a new artistic language to express modernity's speed, energy, and conflicts. Futurist manifestos, archival sources, and secondary scholarship enable A Cloud in Trousers, Backbone Flute, and The Man critical textual examination. Mayakovsky's language, typography, syntax, and rhythmic experimentation distinguished him from traditional poetics as part of Futurism's rejection of creative standards. Mayakovsky's theatrical, political, and emotional lyricism connected avant-garde and Soviet values, the study concluded. The study displays his Cubo-Futurist and LEF collaboration to create practical, original, and socially valuable art. Mayakovsky's complex relationship with revolutionary politics is examined, showing how his poetry balanced artistic risk with ideological involvement, sometimes adhering to Soviet cultural norms and sometimes breaking them. The findings suggest Mayakovsky internalized Futurism and used it to visual art, propaganda, performance culture, and early Soviet Constructivism. A multifaceted artist regarded poetry as a visible and physical force in typographic experimentation, poster-poems, and agitprop.  The study indicates that Mayakovsky's legacy is his ability to reinvent poetic language, broaden literature's expressive capability, and inspire modernist and postmodernist authors. His work shows how the avant-garde may revolt culturally and reshape nations. The study argues that Mayakovsky was one of the most significant architects of Russian Avant-Garde writing, whose Futurist vision now shapes experimental art, performance poetry, and political aesthetics.