Literature and revolution. Trotsky L.D.

Trotsky’s work, translated into many languages, widely popular among the “left” intellectuals of the West, first published in 1923, then banned in the USSR and published in Russia only in 1991.

A book, over which the author worked in fits and storage to many years from 1907 to 1923.

In his assertive and expression manner, the author reflects on the ideological role of art-and not only literature, but also painting, theater and even architecture-in the formation of a "new" personality type, and very harshly criticizes one. the parties to the “proletarian swagger” of semi-literate ideologists and the representatives of bohemian avant-garde who dreamed of “throwing off the old culture from the ship of modernity”, and on the other hand, is no less whilly paced through the traditional-patriarchal preferences in the art of Lenin and especially Stalin (although not a single one directly Of these in the book and is not called).