The Prison Poems of Nikolai Bukharin
Bukharin, Nikolai / Shriver, George H.
Nikolai Bukharin, an original Bolshevik leader and a founder of the Soviet state, spent the last year of his life imprisoned by Stalin, awaiting a show trial and likely execution. During that time, from March 1937 to March 1938, Bukharin wrote four book-length manuscripts in his prison cell. Seventy years later, "The Prison Poems" is the last of the four prison manuscripts to be published. Bukharin organized his poems (approximately 180 of the...