Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938), an original Bolshevik leader and a founder of the Soviet state, spent the last year of his life imprisoned by Stalin, awaiting trial and eventual execution. Remarkably, during that time, from March 1937 to March 1938, Bukharin wrote four book-length manuscripts by hand in his prison cell. Seventy years later, "The Prison Poems" is the last of these four manuscripts - which include "How It All Began: The Prison Novel" and "Socialism and Its Culture" - to be published, allowing readers to grasp ...
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Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938), an original Bolshevik leader and a founder of the Soviet state, spent the last year of his life imprisoned by Stalin, awaiting trial and eventual execution. Remarkably, during that time, from March 1937 to March 1938, Bukharin wrote four book-length manuscripts by hand in his prison cell. Seventy years later, "The Prison Poems" is the last of these four manuscripts - which include "How It All Began: The Prison Novel" and "Socialism and Its Culture" - to be published, allowing readers to grasp Bukharin's vision in its full extent. Bukharin organized the nearly 180 poems in this volume, written from June to November 1937, into several series. Two series of poems - one dealing with forerunners to the 1917 Russian Revolution and another focusing on the Russian Civil War - address topics not found in the other prison manuscripts. The same is true of the "Lyrical Intermezzo" poems for and about Anna Larina, his young wife, from whom he was separated by his imprisonment. This first English translation of Bukharin's "Prison Poems" is a compelling read, evidencing the powerful intersection of politics and art.
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New in New jacket. 8.1 x 5.3 x 1.9 inches. pp. 571. Brand new. Pristine copy in publisher's sealed wrap. No markings. From the back jacket: "Yet now the fascist hero comes along, With his empty pumpkin head, As elementary as a log, Bringing with him the promise of change. Chewing his cud like an ox, He drains the swamp And refills it with blood." One of the original old Bolsheviks with Lenin and Trotsky, Bukharin allied himself with Stalin after Lenin's death and helped Stalin oust Trotsky, who fled abroad later to be assassinated in Mexico. Stalin's other perceived enemies, Zinoviev and Kamenev, were executed. Bukharin himself was eventually purged and imprisoned by Stalin. The nearly 180 poems in this volume were written by Bukharin during the last year of his life from March 1937 to March 1938 as he awaited his own trial and execution. Translated by George Shriver. // Shipped carefully packed in a sturdy box.
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