The sexual revolution is considered a consequence of the social revolution: emancipation leads to new forms of family, to an unprecedented simplicity of morals... This book proves that everything is exactly the opposite. The prose, poetry and drama of the twenties are a natural continuation of the Russian Silver Age with its spicy eroticism and suicidal mania, which usually blossomed in the era of reaction. The Russian sexual revolution was a product of despair, the result of global disillusionment with the Bolshevik coup. The literature of the NEP, with its amazing combination of sincerity, bad taste and frankness unimaginable in the USSR, remained a unique monument to this absurd and exotic era (Dmitry Bykov). The collection includes prose, poetry, plays by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Andrei Platonov, Alexei Tolstoy, Evgeny Zamyatin, Nikolai Zabolotsky, Panteleimon Romanov, Leonid Dobychin, Sergei Tretyakov, as well as works of the twenties, which are being republished for the first time and have long become a bibliographic rarity.