Problems of Everyday Life

Problems of Everyday Life: Creating the Foundations for A New Society in Revolutionary Russia or Problems of Every Day Life: And Other Writings on Culture and Science are a selection of articles and party speeches by Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky on a variety of cultural and scientific matters.

These collections documented his perspective from the closing interlude of the Civil War in 1923 until his final years in exile in Mexico from 1937-1940. In these writings, Trotsky presented his views on a number of cultural areas which relate to aesthetic art, civility in public life, the emancipation of women, universal education, science and technology and dialectical materialism.

In the interregnum period following the Russian Civil War, Trotsky diverted his personal attention towards cultural matters as a foundational element of socialist reconstruction.