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 everyday life, without which there is no history of Russian culture at the beginning of the 20th century. These are Rozanov, Zamyatin, Merezhkovsky, Kuzmin and others. The reader will have the opportunity to get acquainted with Trotsky’s assessment of many works of fiction, painting, architecture of the 10th - early 20th years of our century. First published in 1923, this book for many years was not only a bibliographic rarity, but also a banned publication. It is now offered to the reader.