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These are the memoirs of the 80-year-old wife of the charismatic Bolshevik leader and revolutionist, Nikolai Bukharin. It offers a new dimension to our understanding of Soviet history and one of the most attractive, admired and still-mourned old Bolsheviks, Bukharin. In Anna Larina we have an extraordinary woman's story, as well as first-hand knowledge from within the revolutionary elite that created the Soviet Union, ruled it in the 1930s and then was swept away for ever in the crimson tide of Stalin's 20-year mass terror.