Coiled Verbal Spring: Devices of Lenin’s Language

“Coiled Verbal Spring: Devices of Lenin’s Language” presents a collection of writing by Russian Formalists and Futurists analyzing Lenin’s revolutionary language. Originally published in 1924 in the journal Left Front of the Arts, “Coiled Verbal Spring” includes the first English translations of these essays. The book includes the most ‘political’ texts of the Russian Formalist and Futurist movement, by Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum, Yuri Tynyanov, Boris Tomashevsky, Lev Yakubinsky and Boris Kazansky.

Translator: Thomas Campbell, Mikko Viljanen
Design: Ott Kagovere.
Print run: 1000
Dimensions: 14 x 21 cm
Cover: Softcover, silkscreen print
Pages: 367
Year: November, 2018
ISBN: 9789529411382
Publisher: RabRab Press