Synopsis:
Jane Treays' documentary about the case of Nikolai Bukharin, Lenin's advisor and editor of Pravda and Izvestia in the 1920s and 1930s. Bukharin was executed in 1938 after the last of Stalin's show trials. Gorbachev openly denounced this action in 1988, and Bukharin's widow Anna has been allowed to talk about her husband for the first time in 50 years.
Synopsis:
Jane Treays' documentary about the case of Nikolai Bukharin, Lenin's advisor and editor of Pravda and Izvestia in the 1920s and 1930s. Bukharin was executed in 1938 after the last of Stalin's show trials. Gorbachev openly denounced this action in 1988, and Bukharin's widow Anna has been allowed to talk about her husband for the first time in 50 years.