The second volume - the author's work on Russian literature of the 1920s - includes the first edition of his book about Dostoevsky (1929), two prefaces to the volumes of the complete collection of works of art by L. N. Tolstoy (1929) with rough archival materials for them , and also (as an appendix) - recordings of a home oral course on the history of Russian literature (recordings by R. M. Mirkina). Another application is the publication of extracts from German philosophical and philological works (M. Scheler and L. Spitzer), which accompanied the author’s work on a book about Dostoevsky, with translation and commentary. The volume as a whole is thoroughly commented on.