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Here at last in English is Nikolai Bukharin’s autobiographical novel and final work. Many dissident texts of the Stalin era were saved by chance, by bravery, or by cunning; others were systematically destroyed. Bukharin’s work, however, was simultaneously preserved and suppressed within Stalin’s personal archives. At once novel, memoir, political apology, and historical document, How It All Began, known in Russia as “ the prison novel,†adds greatly to ...
Bukharin Wrote His Philosophical Arabesques In The Lubyanka Perison In Moscow, Facing Trial On Charges Of Treason And Execution After He Was Found Guilty. After The Death Of Lenin, Bukharin Co-Operated With Stalin For A Time. Once Stalin'S Supremacy Was Assured He Began Eliminating All Potential Rivals. For Bukharin, The Process Was To End With His Confession Before The Soviet Court, Facing The Threat That His Young Family Would Be Killed Along With Hm If He Did ...