The 20th Century Books teaching materials based on the lectures by Professor Igor Sukhikh have been developed at the Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University. The course is primarily aimed at the historical and literary interpretation of the given texts; students are also supposed to take part in the dialogue by receiving some supporting data as well as questions and assignments. The course is also aimed at expanding students' knowledge of the Russian literary history and the history in general, at developing their skills of analysing a literary work taking into account all of its constituents as a whole.