Widow of the Revolution: The Anna Larina Story
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Rosemarie Reed
Vanessa Redgrave
Eral Hammond
Stephen F Cohen
Lev Sviridov
Marjorie Acker
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Profile of Anna Larina, the daughter of one founding father of the Soviet Union and wife of another. Born in 1914, Anna Larina was the daughter of Yuri Larin, a close friend and revolutionary colleague of Lenin. Twenty years later, she married Soviet leader Nikolai Bukharin, the "golden boy" of the revolution -- which sealed her fate. Four years later, Stalin made Bukharin the main defendent at the most notorious Moscow show trial, then had him executed as "an enemy of the people." Separated from her infant son, who grew up in an orphanage ignorant of the true identity of his mother or father, Larina spent the next 20 years in Soviet prisons, labor camps and Siberian exile. Only after Stalin's death in 1953 was she reunited with her then 20-year-old child and allowed to return to Moscow. But with Bukharin still officially stigmatized as an "enemy of the people," his widow and son lived anonymously for the next 30 years -- until Gorachev restored Bukharin to honor in 1988.
