This is a stunning book - remarkable research went into its preparation. The writing is excellent. The subject matter - and subject-of-the-biography - are fascinating and meaningful about how Stalinism developed in opposition to Bukharin's entirely different intentions and theory about how to build communism. I never encountered the name or story of Nikolai Bukharin in my history studies in high school or college. I am glad I have now, and I will read more of this man and the story of the development of the USSR that terrified and murdered its people and ravaged its culture & economy. ( )

Review from the January 1975 issue of the Socialist Standard:

http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/10/a-better-red-but-dead-1975....

Well written and sympathetic biography of Bukharin. Cohen argues that Bukharin represented a more humane bolshevik alternative to Stalinism.