This is a unique book in the entire history of Russian literature, which arose from the writer’s short newspaper responses to the topic of the day. Gorky's articles appeared almost daily in the Petrograd newspaper Novaya Zhizn. The newspaper was opened after the February Revolution and closed after the October Revolution. She lived from May 1, 1917 to June 16, 1918, i.e., during the most transitional, turning point time. The path between two revolutions - bourgeois and socialist - is a difficult path. Published on the pages of Novaya Zhizn, Gorky tried to develop his position, his attitude to reality and developing events.