pt. 1. Problem of art: Marxism ; Symbolists ; Futurists ; Correspondence from two corners -- Necessity of art: the last years of Aleksandr Blok -- Redundancy of art: Soviet and Marxist views of art in the 1920s -- pt. 2. Secret of art: two Soviet myths: Khlebnikov's Night search ; Bagritsky's February -- Difference of art: some Soviet writers of the 1920s and 1930s: Zamyatin ; Pilʹnyak ; Red cavalry ; Yuriy Olesha ; Andrey Platonov -- Fact of art: Leonid Leonov -- Some properties of art.