In the Soviet Union's final years there was a strong tendency to view Mayakovsky's work as dated and insignificant; there were even calls for banishing his poems from school textbooks. Yet on the basis of his best works, Mayakovsky's reputation was revived and (by authors like Yuri Karabchiyevsky) attempts have been made to recreate an objective picture of _his_ life and legacy. <sep>, Pronoun: his <sep>, A: Mayakovsky <sep>, B: Yuri Karabchiyevsky