Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna LarinaDrawing from Hoover Institution archival documents, 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 tragic story of Stalin's most prominent victims: Pravda editor Nikolai Bukharin and his wife, Anna Larina. |
Contents
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Digging His Own Grave | 9 |
Stalin Plays an Unlikely Cupid | 14 |
Summer with Stalin 1927 | 16 |
You and I Are the Himalayas | 19 |
Bukharin Fights Back | 22 |
Pity Not Me | 28 |
Dress Rehearsal for Arrest | 92 |
Confrontations | 99 |
I Will Begin a Hunger Strike | 103 |
To a Future Generation | 109 |
On the Whipping Post | 110 |
For or Against the Death Penalty? | 116 |
Arrest Warrant for Bukharin N I | 119 |
Arrest and Parting | 121 |
A FifteenYearOld Coconspirator | 30 |
To a New Catastrophe with Closed Eyes | 33 |
Stalin Is Dangerous | 37 |
Father and Daughter as Bolshevik Idealists | 40 |
You Can Test the Nerves of an Elephant Bukhashka | 44 |
A Second Fateful Meeting | 47 |
Waterloo | 49 |
The Woman on the Train | 58 |
Removal from the Politburo | 61 |
Chastened Schoolboys Drop In on the Boss | 65 |
Bukharin Sinks to His Knees | 66 |
With Anna in the Crimea | 67 |
Overtaken by Insanities وو | 70 |
Courtship Bad Omens and Marriage | 72 |
Kirov Is Shot | 75 |
Nadezhda Tries to Help | 77 |
Humiliating Editor Bukharin | 80 |
Bukharin Opts to Stay and Fight | 83 |
What Accusers? Theyre Dead | 86 |
Bukharin Grovels 90 222 | 90 |
Anna Larina Is Betrayed | 123 |
Impossible Dream | 125 |
Bukharins Cagey Confession | 126 |
Anna Meets a New Widow | 130 |
Twentyone on Trial | 133 |
Papering over Bukharins Final Defiance | 138 |
The Ultimate Payback A Ghastly Death | 142 |
Annas Own Ordeal | 144 |
Back from the Precipice | 146 |
Advice from a Mass Murderer | 148 |
Reunion with Iura | 150 |
Rehabilitated by Old Men | 153 |
A Special Specially Tardy Delivery | 158 |
Bukharin Stalin and the Bolshevik Revolution | 160 |
NOTES | 167 |
CAST OF CHARACTERS | 179 |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR | 185 |
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