Volume 40, Number 15 · September 23, 1993
'The Evil of This Time'
By Robert Conquest
This I Cannot Forget: The Memoirs of Nikolai Bukharin's Widow
by Anna Larina, Introduction by Stephen F. Cohen, translated by Gary Kern
Norton, 384 pp., $24.95
The combination of terror and lies that marked the Stalinist period in the Soviet Union reached its height in the 'Moscow Trials,' in which Communist leaders who had opposed Stalin publicly confessed to false charges of treason and other crimes, and were then executed. In the climax, the third of these trials in March 1938, Nikolai Bukharin, 'Lenin's favorite,' was the chief victim.
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