For the Voice is a collection of poems published in Berlin in 1923 by Russian poet, Vladimir Mayakovsky, in collaboration with a Russian artist El Lissitzky. Mayakovsky was born in Georgia but moved with his family to Moscow where he became active in left-wing politics. He embraced the revolution not only for the economic and social changes it would bring, but as a gateway to freedom of art and individual expression. Increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet Union under the dictator Josef Stalin, he committed suicide on April 14, 1930. El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzkyis) one of the most influential and genuinely experimental artists of the early twentieth century. Equally prolific as a painter, designer, architect and photographer, he connected countries and cultures as a leading ambassador between the Soviet and European avant-gardes of the 1920s.