The Victory of Bukharin's Widow; 50 Years After His Execution, Anna Larina Sees Her Bolshevik Husband Reclaimed by Soviet History From: The Washington Post | Date: December 6, 1988| Author: David Remnick | Copyright 1988 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

On the southwest edge of Moscow an old woman named Anna Mikhailovna Larina lives deep within her memories. Her life has been a Bolshevik romance, a Stalinist tragedy of show trials, prison, exile and, now, a vindication. "It's as if I'm the living story of everything that has happened to the Soviet Union."

Larina is the 74-year-old widow of Nikolai Bukharin, the revolutionist and theoretician whom Lenin once called "the favorite of the whole party." After Lenin's death in 1924, Bukh...

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