after the bolsheviks gained power, mayakovsky's group—patronized by anatoly lunacharsky, bolshevik commissar for education—aspired to dominate soviet culture. their influence was paramount during the first years after the revolution, until their program—or rather lack thereof—was subjected to scathing criticism by the authorities. by the time oberiu attempted to revive some of the futurist tenets during the late 1920s, the futurist movement in russia had already ended. the most militant futurist poets either died (khlebnikov, mayakovsky) or preferred to adjust their very individual style to more conventional requirements and trends (aseyev, pasternak). the decline of futurism can also be seen in russia when kruchenykh attempted to publish "fifteen years of russian futurism 1912-1927" in 1928 and the communist party made it clear they did not want any futurist influence in soviet literature. marking an abrupt fall from grace for kruchenykh's writing and futurism as a literary movement.