This is actually the album released as Talking With the Taxman About Poetry in the US and UK, but retitled for behind the iron curtain. When I found it in the store I thought it was some kind of bootleg live album, not recognizing the tracklist (which I should have recognized).
Not sure if Mayakovsky was out of favor or self-titled just made more sense for the market behind the iron curtain. From what I can tell (discogs) this was the only Bragg album Amiga issued. Fun to read (google translate) the liner notes in German.
My copy—via Wave Music in Budapest Hungary—is an East German (GDR) pressing by VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Potsdam-Babelsberg on Amiga labels.






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