Download PDF by Anna Larina: This I Cannot Forget: The Memoirs of Nikolai Bukharin’s

By Anna Larina

ISBN-10: 0393312348

ISBN-13: 9780393312348

A sensation whilst released in Moscow and a bestseller in Europe, the memoirs of this awesome woman―the widow of the charismatic Bolshevik chief Nikolai I. Bukharin―offer a brand new measurement to our realizing of Soviet history.

Larina tells the tale not just of her 20 years within the Gulag yet of her existence as a daughter and a spouse one of the founding fathers of the Soviet Union.

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