دانلود کتاب How It All Began: The Prison Novel

Written while Bukharin was awaiting not merely execution but execution on false
charges as a Nazi spy and terrorist, this semi-autobiographical novel of a Russian
childhood and youth, superbly introduced by Stephen E Cohen, is an astonishing
contribution to both literature and history."
- ROBERT CONQUEST, author of The Great Terror: A Reassessment

"As I read How It All Began, 1 could not stop chinking about the nightmarish
conditions, oflife in a Stalin prison, under which the novel was written. I could not
stop chinking about the enormous emotional courage it took-for a man who knew
he was going to die, for a man who every moment feared for the safety of his wife
and child, for a man who knew his every word would be read by the executioners of
Stalin's terrorist policy- to write a book that pulses with the positive energy of an
extraordinarily gifted boy/young man whose life was just beginning to unfold. The
reader lives with the intensity of the raw pain of imminent death, and the reader
lives with the intensity of the extraordinary thirst for life that propels this novel."
- ELLEN CHANCES