The main topics are the revolutionary struggle of the underground under tsarism and the heroic activity of the Bolsheviks during the civil war. He wrote stories for children. Arosev was considered one of the main proletarian writers, his books were studied in Soviet schools. He is one of the most nomenclature writers of the USSR. All his life from an early youth he defended the ideals of anti-Christianity, participating in international terrorist activities. The revolution made him a great political leader. It was he who commanded the troops that fired at St. Sophia Cathedral in the Kremlin. In 1938, after another shift in the echelons of power, he was shot in the basements of the Lubyanka by the Political Police of the USSR.