Plot Summary

This documentary on Bukharin was made shortly after his rehabilitation in the USSR under Gorbachev in 1988. Contributors: Fitzroy Maclean (present as a British diplomat at Bukharin's show trial), Anna Larina (Bukharin's widow), Alec Nove, Anthony Kemp-Welch, Arkady Vachsberg, Dmitri Volkogonov. Granted special permission to cover the story and the first interview with Bukharin's widow Anna, Timewatch accompanies Sir Fitzroy Maclean back to the city where he attended Bukharin's trial in 1938.