This is what I believe to be the main point of the novel. Larina overcoming all odds and surviving that tragedy, and still prevails long enough to tell the world about the events that happened so long ago.
<Tab/>Larina, in my opinion, truly believes every word she wrote. She disputes how guilty Bukharin really was, but not as a legal representative, but more from a wife's perspective. This could be from the fact her husband and son were both taken from her unjustly by Stalin. Larina proves that she thinks Stalin, not Bolshevism, is the real evil during this time period. …
