Widow of the revolution : the Anna Larina story

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Label

Widow of the revolution : the Anna Larina story

Title remainder

the Anna Larina story

Statement of responsibility

produced by Rosemarie Reed

Contributor

• Reed, Rosemarie

Subject

• Bukharin, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich, 1888-1938
• Documentary films
• Larina, Anna
• Soviet Union -- Politics and government

Genre

• Documentary films

Language

eng

Summary

Anna Larina was the young bride of Nikolai Bukharin, one of the top ten Bolsheviks in the early years of the Russian Revolution. This documentary is based on her memorable autobiography, This I Cannot Forget, which she wrote late in life, after being imprisoned for almost twenty years in the Russian Gulag. Larina s life story is recounted by her, interwoven with extraordinary archival film and interviews.Larina had grown up amidst the dazzling personalities in Revolutionary circles and recalls Lenin, Stalin and others. She recounts her love affair and marriage with Bukharin, which ended with his arrest in 1937, during Stalin s Great Terror. Shortly thereafter, she was arrested, sent to Astrakhan Prison and later to the Siberian gulag camps where she spent twenty years. She followed Stalin's notorious show trials as closely as she could; these crushed the Party s ideals and hopes of reform. Bukharin was executed after the trials. Decades later in 1992, when Stalin s personal archives were opened, Bukharin's books, philosophical treatises, poetry and a novel were discovered. One of these, How It All Began, was published around the world. Upon Stalin's death in 1956, Larina was released from the camps.Due to Larina's efforts, Bukharin was rehabilitated in 1992 by the Russian government when Gorbachev felt the need to show that there had been an alternative to the Stalinist legacy. The Russian scholar, Stephen F. Cohen, who narrates this documentary, became a close friend of this exceptionally courageous woman

Awards note

• Doubletake Film Festival, 2001
• Gold Medal, World Media Festival, Hamburg, 2001
• Hot Springs Documentary Film festival, 2001

Cataloging source

VaAlASP

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

For College; Adult audiences

Language note

This edition in English

Runtime

57

Target audience

general