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In "Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina, " Paul Gregory sheds light on how the world's first socialist state went terribly wrong and why it was likely to veer off course through the story of two of Stalin's most prominent victims. A founding father of the Soviet Union at the age of twenty-nine, Nikolai Bukharin was the editor of "Pravda" and an intimate of Lenin's exile. (Lenin later dubbed him "the favorite of the party.") But after Bukharin crossed swords with Stalin over their differing visions of the world's first socialist state, he paid the ultimate price with his life. His wife, Anna Larina, the stepdaughter of a high Bolshevik official, spent much of her life in prison camps and in exile after her husband's execution. Drawn from Hoover Institution archival documents, the story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina begins with the optimism of the socialist revolution and then turns into a dark saga of foreboding and terror as the game changes from political struggle to physical survival. Told for the most part in the words of the participants, it is, as Robert Conquest says in his foreword, "a story told to show the horrors of fate, of personal mistreatment and suffering by real people." It is also a story of courage and cowardice, strength and weakness, misplaced idealism, missed opportunities, bungling, and, above all, love.
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. xv |
| April 15, 1937: A Plea from Prison | p. 1 |
| March 15, 1938: A Husband Executed | p. 6 |
| September 8, 1927: Digging His Own Grave | p. 9 |
| 1926: Stalin Plays an Unlikely Cupid | p. 14 |
| Summer with Stalin (1927) | p. 16 |
| June 1928: "You and I Are the Himalayas" | p. 19 |
| July 4-12, 1928: Bukharin Fights Back | p. 22 |
| Autumn 1928: Pity Not Me | p. 28 |
| Autumn 1928: A Fifteen-Year-Old "Co-conspirator" | p. 30 |
| January 23, 1929: "To a New Catastrophe with Closed Eyes" | p. 33 |
| Early Warnings: Stalin Is Dangerous | p. 37 |
| Father and Daughter as Bolshevik Idealists | p. 40 |
| January 30, 1929: "You Can Test the Nerves of an Elephant, Bukhashka" | p. 44 |
| Summer of 1934: A Second Fateful Meeting | p. 47 |
| April 16-23, 1929: Waterloo | p. 49 |
| 1929-1931: The Woman on the Train | p. 58 |
| August 1929: Removal from the Politburo | p. 61 |
| New Year's Eve, 1929: Chastened Schoolboys Drop In on the Boss | p. 65 |
| April 16, 1930: Bukharin Sinks to His Knees | p. 66 |
| July 1930: With Anna in the Crimea | p. 67 |
| October 14, 1930: Overtaken by "Insanities" | p. 70 |
| January 27, 1934: Courtship, Bad Omens, and Marriage | p. 72 |
| December 1, 1934: Kirov Is Shot | p. 75 |
| August 23, 1936: Nadezhda Tries to Help | p. 77 |
| April 25, 1935: Humiliating Editor Bukharin | p. 80 |
| March-April 1936: Bukharin Opts to Stay and Fight | p. 83 |
| August 27, 1936: What Accusers? They're Dead | p. 86 |
| November 16, 1936: Bukharin Grovels | p. 90 |
| December 4, 1936: Dress Rehearsal for Arrest | p. 92 |
| December 1936-January 1937: Confrontations | p. 99 |
| February 15, 1937: "I Will Begin a Hunger Strike" | p. 103 |
| February 24, 1937: To a Future Generation | p. 109 |
| February 24-25, 1937: On the Whipping Post | p. 110 |
| February 27, 1937: For or Against the Death Penalty? | p. 116 |
| February 27, 1937: Arrest Warrant for "Bukharin, N. I." | p. 119 |
| February 27, 1937: Arrest and Parting | p. 121 |
| February 1937: Anna Larina Is Betrayed | p. 123 |
| April 1937: Impossible Dream | p. 125 |
| June 2, 1937: Bukharin's Cagey Confession | p. 126 |
| June 1937: Anna Meets a New Widow | p. 130 |
| March 2-13, 1938: Twenty-one on Trial | p. 133 |
| March 12, 1938: Papering over Bukharin's Final Defiance | p. 138 |
| March 15, 1938: The Ultimate Payback: A Ghastly Death | p. 142 |
| May 1938: Anna's Own Ordeal | p. 144 |
| December 1938: Back from the Precipice | p. 146 |
| Late December 1938: Advice from a Mass Murderer | p. 148 |
| Summer of 1956: Reunion with Iura | p. 150 |
| February 5, 1988: Rehabilitated by Old Men | p. 153 |
| A Special (Specially Tardy) Delivery | p. 158 |
| Bukharin, Stalin, and the Bolshevik Revolution | p. 160 |
| Notes | p. 167 |
| Cast of Characters | p. 179 |
| About the Author | p. 185 |
| Index | p. 187 |
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ISBN: 9780817910358
ISBN-10: 0817910352
Series: Hoover Inst Press Publication
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 191
Published: 19th April 2010
Dimensions (cm): 22.6 x 15.0
x 1.8
Weight (kg): 0.318
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