Background
Larina, Anna Wife of Nikolai Bukharin. Daughter of the Bolshevik Mikhail Lur'e (Iurii Larin).
Larina, Anna Wife of Nikolai Bukharin. Daughter of the Bolshevik Mikhail Lur'e (Iurii Larin).
Married Nikolai Bukharin (his second wife) in 1934. According to some sources, threats to the life of his young wife forced Bukharin to confess to fantastic crimes at his trial. After his execution in 1938, arrested as the wife of an enemy of the people.
Spent nearly 20 years in prisons and Gulag camps. Approached Khrushchev in 1962 in an attempt to rehabilitate her husband. Thereafter continued her fight for many years until she received the full support of Soviet intellectuals and later the party leadership.
In December 1987, interviewed by the editor of Ogonek, Vitalii Korotich, and published in the Moscow News (3 December 1987) her husband’s last letter to ‘A Future Generation of Soviet Leaders’. Lives in Moscow. Her aim is to publish all Bukharin’s archives and explain his views. Finally saw the complete success of her life-long campaign with the complete rehabitation of N. Bukharin in 1988.
Religion is bad because it imposes irrational rules of good and bad behaviour.
The role of the individual as a member of a collective is more important than the individual.