The manual is dedicated to one of the controversial and little-studied phenomena of modern culture - Russian mass literature of the 20th century, the processes of its formation from popular works of the beginning of the century (novels by A. Verbitskaya, M. Artsybashev, etc.) and the adventure novel of the 1920s. before the formation of the domestic detective story, melodrama, historical novel and other genres at the end of the 20th century. (A. Marinina, B. Akunin, D. Dontsova, etc.). The formation of mass literature of the 20th century. is considered in the broad context of sociocultural problems. For students, graduate students, teachers of humanities faculties of universities, philologists.