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Excerpt from Trotsky’s Sochineniia, XXI: 110–12, from A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891–1924, published by Jonathan Cape. Reproduced by permission of the Random House Group Ltd.
‘Incantation by Laughter’, Velemir Khlebnikov, translated by Gary Kern, from The Chatto Book of Nonsense Poetry, edited by Hugh Haughton and published by Chatto & Windus. Reproduced by permission of the Random House Group Ltd.
Excerpt from ‘Trumpet of the Martians’, Velemir Khlebnikov, in Russian Futurism through Its Manifestos, translated by Anna Lawton and Herbert Eagle, Cornell University Press, 1988
Excerpt from ‘The Twelve’, Aleksandr Blok, translated by Jon Stallworthy and Peter France in Selected Poems, Carcanet, 2000. Reprinted with permission.
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