To the Editors

To the Editors:

I have a strong personal interest in the memoirs of Anna Larina-Bukharina, but I was astonished for scholarly reasons that the book was not even mentioned in Irina Paperno's long article "Personal Accounts of the Soviet Experience" (Kritika 3: 4 [Fall 2002], 577—610).

Published in book form in Moscow in 1989 and again in 2002 as Nezabyvaemoe, as well as in many foreign editions, including English (This I Cannot Forget [New York: W. W. Norton, 1993]), Anna Mikhailovna's account of her personal Soviet experience is among the fullest, most closely observed, and best written that we have. And it relates in significant ways to many of the themes discussed by Professor Paperno.

Stephen F. Cohen
Dept. of Russian Studies
New York University
19 University Place, R. 210
New York, NY 10003 USA

Irina Paperno does not wish to reply.