Larina tells the story not only of her twenty years in the Gulag but of her life as a daughter and a wife among the founding fathers of the Soviet Union.Starred Review. Measured, vivid, and strikingly free of malice; her tone throughout is one of absolute self-reliance. Exceptionally moving and strong.A sensation when published in Moscow and a bestseller in Europe, the memoirs of this remarkable womanthe widow of the charismatic Bolshevik leader Nikolai I. Bukharinoffer a new dimension to our understanding of Soviet history.