6" x 9" Pages clean & bright; binding tight; minor wear to covers. 345 pages. English translation by George Shriver.

6" x 9" Pages clean & bright; binding tight; minor wear to covers. 345 pages. English translation by George Shriver.

Size: 9x6x0; Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Some corners

Size: 9x6x0; Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Some corners folded over. Clean, unmarked pages. Here at last in English is Nikolai Bukharin's autobiographical novel and final work. At once novel, memoir, political apology, and historical document, How It All Began, known in Russia as "the prison novel, " adds greatly to our understanding of this vital intellectual and maligned historical figure. In the 1920s and '30s, he defended Lenin's liberal New Economic Policy, claiming that Stalin's policies of forced industrialization constituted a "military-feudal exploitation" of the masses. He also warned of the approaching tide of European fascism and its threat to the new Bolshevik revolution. For his opposition, Bukharin paid with his freedom and his life.