Literary historian and publicist Boris Frezinsky is the author of the books “The Fates of the Serapions”, “All this happened in the 20th century (notes on the margins of history)”, “Ilya Erenburg with a camera”; biographer of Ilya Ehrenburg, publisher and commentator of his works, as well as the works of N. I. Bukharin and other authors; he is the author of more than 250 articles and publications on the history of literature and political history of the Russian 20th century. B. Ya. Frezinsky’s new documentary book “Writers and Soviet Leaders” is based on many years of archival research by the author. The book of literary historian B. Ya. Frezinsky “Writers and Soviet Leaders” is full of unknown and little-known historical documents. It allows the reader, using specific examples, avoiding simplified schemes and hasty conclusions, to see how in different decades of Soviet history the individual destinies of writers took different shapes in the country, while remaining invariably complex, ambiguous and tragic. And along the way - and how the system created as a result of the October Revolution led to the brutal dictatorship of Stalin, which destroyed the leaders of the revolution - Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev, Bukharin, Radek...