Leon Trotsky's book "Literature and Revolution" reveals his general aesthetic ideas, views on the problems of literary and artistic processes. On its pages, the reader will find names returned to our spiritual life, without which there is no history of Russian culture at the beginning of the 20th century. These are Rozanov, Zamyatin, Merezhkovsky, Kuzmin, etc. The reader will have the opportunity to get acquainted with Trotsky's assessment of many works of fiction, painting, architecture of the 10th - early 20s of our century.