Nikolai Bukharin: The Last Years

“Medvedev’s account of Bukharin’s persecution, which served as the model for Arthur Koestler’s novel Darkness at Noon, is grim, dramatic and poignant.” —Publishers Weekly Nikolai Bukharin was one of the most eminent leaders and theoreticians of the Bolsheviks, a man who had become famous long before the Russian Revolution. He was idolized by the youth of Soviet Russia, who identified with him and drew much of their inspiration from his writings. Prominent among the organizers of the revolut...