The book is dedicated to the fate of the Russian Word, the tragic pages of our literature. It tells about writers killed or persecuted by the totalitarian regime. The narrative is based on new documents and manuscripts that the author discovered and examined while working in the archives of the KGB and the USSR Prosecutor's Office as the organizer and head of the Commission on the Creative Heritage of Repressed Writers of Russia. Among the heroes of the book are Isaac Babel, Mikhail Bulgakov, Pavel Florensky, Nikolai Klyuev, Osip Mandelstam, Nina Gagen-Thorn, Georgy Demidov, Boris Pilnyak, Maxim Gorky. “Slaves of Freedom” is the result of the author’s many years of work on this topic, to which others are also devoted his books: “Denunciation of Socrates” (M.: Formika-S, 2001) and “Crime without Punishment” (M.: Progress-Pleiada, 2007). The continuation of the work is a new, revised edition of “Slaves of Freedom”, expanded and clarified. The publication is illustrated with rare archival photographs and documents.