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

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A sensation when published in Moscow and a bestseller in Europe, the memoirs of this remarkable woman―the widow of the charismatic Bolshevik leader Nikolai I. Bukharin―offer a new dimension to our understanding of Soviet history. 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. Contents INTRODUCTION: The Afterlife of Nikolai Bukharin by Stephen F. Cohen AUTHOR'S PREFACE THIS I CANNOT FORGET The Tomsk Camp, December 1937-March 1938 Transit Prisons Mothers and Babies in Prison Wives of Political Prisoners Mothers of Disgraced Sons 5 How Stalin Toyed with Bukharin-The Bukharin Trial A Nightmare 7 The Fate of Her Child and Memories of a Happier Siberian Journey 8 CONTENTS The Underground Cell The Rightist and Trotskyist Oppositions Bukharin's Conversation with Kamenev and Its Fateful Consequences, 19 28-19 29 Bukharin's Character and Ideals A Letter to Yezhov and a Poem for Yura Our Romance, Stalin's Wife, and Premonitions Return to Life And to Moscow Last Months in Moscow after Bukharin's Arrest The Astrakhan Prison, 193 7-Moscow's Lubyanka Prison, 1938 Portrait of Father Childhood Friendship with Bukharin Lenin's Death, Father's Death, and New Cellmates Bukharin's Last Months of Freedom: The Paris Trip The "Letter of an Old Bolshevik" and Other Supposed "Recollections" of Bukharin in Paris Bukharin's Confrontation with Sokolnikov Radek's Arrest and Testimony "I Have Returned from Hell. "-Bukharin, January 1937 Reunion with Yura in 1956 The Last Plenum and Bukhan·n's Hunger Strike The Last Good-bye and the First Search Bukharin's Arrest Bukharin's Testament Photos