Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938) was a Bolshevik intellectual and revolutionary, as well as the author of more than a hundred articles and books. He was executed as a "counterrevolutionary" on March 15, 1938 and exonerated fifty years later by Mikhail Gorbachev.George Shriver has translated and edited Roy Medvedev's On Soviet Dissentand The October Revolution, as well as Let History Judge (all published by Columbia).Stephen F. Cohen is professor of politics and Russian studies at Princeton University. His books include Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938 and Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History Since 1917. George Shriver has translated and edited Roy Medvedev's On Soviet Dissentand The October Revolution, as well as Let History Judge (all published by Columbia).

No one reading this book in context can fail to be moved by its author's valiant struggle to behold his life one last time. Los Angeles Times A moving personal statement about art and political responsibility, and an epic retelling of the era preceding the Revolution of 1917. Globe and Mail, Toronto Vivid testimony to [Bukharin's] artistic talent...Intensely emotional, essentially optimistic and filled with a serene inner light. Washington Post Book World

Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938) was a Bolshevik intellectual and revolutionary, as well as the author of more than a hundred articles and books. He was executed as a "counterrevolutionary" on March 15, 1938 and exonerated fifty years later by Mikhail Gorbachev.George Shriver has translated and edited Roy Medvedev's On Soviet Dissentand The October Revolution, as well as Let History Judge (all published by Columbia).Stephen F. Cohen is professor of politics and Russian studies at Princeton University. His books include Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938 and Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History Since 1917. George Shriver has translated and edited Roy Medvedev's On Soviet Dissentand The October Revolution, as well as Let History Judge (all published by Columbia).

No one reading this book in context can fail to be moved by its author's valiant struggle to behold his life one last time. Los Angeles Times A moving personal statement about art and political responsibility, and an epic retelling of the era preceding the Revolution of 1917. Globe and Mail, Toronto Vivid testimony to [Bukharin's] artistic talent...Intensely emotional, essentially optimistic and filled with a serene inner light. Washington Post Book World

Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938) was a Bolshevik intellectual and revolutionary, as well as the author of more than a hundred articles and books. He was executed as a "counterrevolutionary" on March 15, 1938 and exonerated fifty years later by Mikhail Gorbachev.George Shriver has translated and edited Roy Medvedev's On Soviet Dissentand The October Revolution, as well as Let History Judge (all published by Columbia).Stephen F. Cohen is professor of politics and Russian studies at Princeton University. His books include Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938 and Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History Since 1917. George Shriver has translated and edited Roy Medvedev's On Soviet Dissentand The October Revolution, as well as Let History Judge (all published by Columbia).

No one reading this book in context can fail to be moved by its author's valiant struggle to behold his life one last time. Los Angeles Times A moving personal statement about art and political responsibility, and an epic retelling of the era preceding the Revolution of 1917. Globe and Mail, Toronto Vivid testimony to [Bukharin's] artistic talent...Intensely emotional, essentially optimistic and filled with a serene inner light. Washington Post Book World