Research Catalog

Title

Politics, murder, and love in Stalin's Kremlin : the story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina / Paul R. Gregory.

Author

Gregory, Paul R.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, c2010.

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Details

Description

xx, 191 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

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 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. This couple's story 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.

Series Statement

Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 579

Uniform Title

Hoover Institution Press publication 579.

Alternative Title

Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina

Subject

• Bukharin, Nikolaĭ, 1888-1938
• Larina, Anna
• Bukharin, Nikolaĭ, 1888-1938
• 1917-1953
• Revolutionaries > Soviet Union > Biography
• Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1936-1953
• Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1917-1936
• Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1936-1953

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. April 15, 1937: A plea from prison -- 2. March 15, 1938: A husband executed -- 3. September 8, 1927: Digging his own grave -- 4. 1926: Stalin plays an unlikely cupid -- 5. Summer with Stalin (1927) -- 6. June 1928: "You and I are the Himalayas" -- 7. Bucharin fights back -- 8. Autumn 1928: Pity not me -- 9. Autumn 1928: A fifteen-year-old "co-conspiration" -- 10. January 23, 1929: "To a new catastrophe with closed eyes" -- 11. Early warnings: Stalin is dangerous -- 12. Father and daughter as bolshevik idealist -- 13. January 30, 1929: "You can test the nerves of an elephant, Bukhashka" -- 14. Summer of 34: A second fateful meeting -- 15. April 16-23, 1929: Waterloo -- 16. 1929-1931: The woman on the train -- 17. August 1929: Removal from the politburo -- 18. New year's Eve, 1929: Chastened schoolboys drop in on the boss -- 19. April 16, 1930: Bukharin sinks to his knees -- 20. July 1930: With Anna in the Crimea -- 21. October 14, 1930: Overtaken by "Insanities" --^
• 22. January 27, 1934: Courtship, bad omens, and marriage -- 23. December 1, 1934: Kirov is shot -- 24. August 23, 1936: Nadezhda tries to help -- 25. April 25, 1935: Humiliating editor Bukharin -- 26. March-April 1936: Bukharin opts to stay and fight -- 27, 1936: What's accusers? They're dead -- 28. November 16, 1936: Bukharin grovels -- 29. December 4, 1936: Dress rehearsal for arrest -- 30. December 1936-January 1937: Confrontations -- 31. February 15, 1937: "I will begin a hunger strike" -- 32. February 24, 1937: To a future generation -- 33. February 24-25, 1937: on the whipping post -- 34. February 27, 1937: For or against the death penalty? -- 35. February 27, 1937: Arrest warrant for "Bukharin, N. I." -- 36. February 27, 1937: Arrest and parting -- 37. February: Anna Larina is betreyed -- 38. April 1937: Impossible dream -- 39. June 2, 1937: Bukharin's Cagey confession -- 40. June 1937: Anna meets a new widow -- 41. March 2-13, 1938: Twenty-one on trial --^
• 42. March 12, 1938: Papering over Bukharin's final defiance -- 43. March 15, 1938: The ultimate payback: a ghastly death -- 44. May 1938: Anna's own ordeal -- 45. December 1938: Back from the precipice -- 46. Late december 1938: Advice from a mass murderer -- 47. Summer of 1956: Reunion with Iura -- 48. February 5, 1988: Rehabilitated by old men -- 49. A special (Specially tardy) delivery -- 50. Bukharin, Stalin, and the bolshevik revolution.

ISBN

• 9780817910341 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0817910344 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780817910358 (paperback : alk. paper)
• 0817910352 (paperback : alk. paper)
• 9780817910365 (ebk.)
• 0817910360 (ebk.)

OCLC

• 503074572
• SCSB-11866972

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library