Nikolai Bukharin

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.

Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of millions of men and women were affected by this political system, one of the most unjust and bloodiest in history. Using newly discovered propaganda films and archival photos, these four episodes explore the mysteries of this totalitarian political machine that lured its share of important followers into the fold. Known as the red church, communism seduced its ardent followers like some earthly religion.