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The second sentence here:

After his death, Mayakovsky was attacked in the Soviet press as a "formalist" and a "fellow-traveller". In 1935, Stalin wrote a remark on Lilya Brik's letter to him:

took me more than one reading to work out what it appears to mean - that Lilya Brik wrote to Stalin (about Mayakovsky?) - perhaps it could be rephrased to something like:

After his death, Mayakovsky was attacked in the Soviet press as a "formalist" and a "fellow-traveller". When, in 1935, his widow Lilya Brik wrote to Stalin (about this?), Stalin wrote a remark on Brik's letter: ...

I'm hesitating to make the chagne myself because I'm still not 100% sure. Palmiro | Talk 18:57, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Good suggestion. I made the change, thanks. ←Humus sapiens ←ну? 06:30, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

It is unclear why Lilya Brik is his widow. There is no mention of marriage in the main text. When did they marry?

[edit] Elli Jones?

For God's sake, guys, what is this stuff? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22elli+jones%22+mayakovsky+-%22on+a+lecture+tour%22+-wikipedia&btnG=Search Not a single page on the internet except those at wikipedia and forums discussing pages thereof and gained knowledge therefrom. --Dennis

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[edit] Elli Jones?

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