Romantic communist

"Romantic Communist portrays a writer who combined political courage with artistic creativity, even under prison conditions. Using both personal testimonies and newly-discovered archival sources, it presents Nazim's career as a microcosm of modern politics."--BOOK JACKET. "After initially supporting Kemal Ataturk's campaign to liberate Turkey from the control of the Western powers, Nazim went to Moscow as a student in the early 1920s. Here he was decisively influenced by the artistic experiments of Mayakovsky and Meyerhold, as well as the political vision of Lenin. On his return to Istanbul…