This I Cannot Forget The Memoirs of Nikolai Bukharin's Widow

by Larina, Anna; Cohen, Stephen F.

• ISBN13: 9780393312348
• ISBN10: 0393312348
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-08-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Larina tells the story not only of her twenty years in the Gulag but of her life as a daughter and a wife among the founding fathers of the Soviet Union.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Afterlife of Nikolai Bukharin	p. 11
Author's Preface	p. 37
This I Cannot Forget	p. 39
The Tomsk Camp, December 1937 - March 1938	p. 42
Transit Prisons	p. 51
Mothers and Babies in Prison	p. 54
Wives of Political Prisoners	p. 55
Mothers of Disgraced Sons	p. 57
How Stalin Toyed with Bukharin - The Bukharin Trial	p. 63
A Nightmare	p. 74
The Fate of Her Child and Memories of a Happier Siberian Journey	p. 75
The Underground Cell	p. 85
Vision of Golgotha	p. 101
The Rightist and Trotskyist Oppositions	p. 105
With Bukharin in the Crimea, 1930	p. 107
Bukharin's Conversation with Kamenev and Its Fateful Consequences, 1928-1929	p. 112
Bukharin's Character and Ideals	p. 125
A Letter to Yezhov and a Poem for Yura	p. 128
Our Romance, Stalin's Wife, and Premonitions	p. 133
Deeper into the Gulag	p. 147
Return to Life - And to Moscow	p. 162
Last Months in Moscow after Bukharin's Arrest	p. 167
Exile in Astrakhan, 1937	p. 172
The Astrakhan Prison, 1937 - Moscow's Lubyanka Prison, 1938	p. 180
Confrontation with Beria	p. 187
Portrait of Father	p. 204
Childhood Friendship with Bukharin	p. 220
Lenin's Death, Father's Death, and New Cellmates	p. 224
Memories of Trotsky, and a Disturbing Interrogation in the Lubyanka	p. 235
Bukharin's Last Months of Freedom: The Paris Trip	p. 246
The "Letter of an Old Bolshevik" and Other Supposed "Recollections" of Bukharin in Paris	p. 258
The Storm Descends: Stalin and Bukharin	p. 279
Bukharin's Confrontation with Sokolnikov	p. 292
Radek's Arrest and Testimony	p. 296
"I Have Returned from Hell" - Bukharin, January 1937	p. 309
Reunion with Yura in 1956	p. 318
The Last Plenum and Bukharin's Hunger Strike	p. 323
The Last Good-bye and the First Search	p. 334
Bukharin's Arrest	p. 339
Bukharin's Testament	p. 343
Epilogue: I Always Believed That the Truth Would Triumph	p. 347
Bukharin's Prison Letter to Anna Larina - Delivered 54 Years Later	p. 353
Letters from Soviet Readers	p. 357
Index	p. 377
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