Boris Slutsky (1919–1986) is one of the most important poets of the second half of the 20th century. Evgeny Yevtushenko, Evgeny Rein, Dmitry Sukharev, Oleg Chukhontsev, and not only them, call Slutsky a great poet. Joseph Brodsky said that he began to write poetry because he read Slutsky. Here is a selection of the most Soviet anti-Soviet poet. Moreover, he was a poet of the front-line generation. A huge number of his best poems were not and could not be published under Soviet rule. But it is through his poems that one can study the real history of the USSR. The book is designed to make this easier to do. Slutsky's lyrics are epic. The fate of Slutsky is tragic.