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How It All Began by Bukharin, Nicolai is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is How It All Began about?

Written while Bukharin was awaiting not merely execution but execution on false charges as a Nazi spy and terrorist, this semi-autobiographical novel of a Russian childhood and youth, superbly introduced by Stephen E Cohen, is an astonishing contribution to both literature and history." - ROBERT CONQUEST, author of The Great Terror: A Reassessment "As I read How It All Began, 1 could not stop chinking about the nightmarish conditions, oflife in a Stalin prison, under which the novel was written. I could not stop chinking about the enormous emotional courage it took-for a man who knew he was going to die, for a man who every moment feared for the safety of his wife and child, for a man who knew his every word would be read by the executioners of Stalin's terrorist policy- to write a book that pulses with the positive energy of an extraordinarily gifted boy/young man whose life was just beginning to unfold. The reader lives with the intensity of the raw pain of imminent death, and the reader lives with the intensity of the extraordinary thirst for life that propels this novel." - ELLEN CHANCES

Who reads How It All Began?

Author

Bukharin, Nicolai

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231107310

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities