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Nikolai Bukharin
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and Marxist theorist. A prominent Bolshevik described by Vladimir Lenin as a "most valuable and major theorist" of the Communist Party, Bukharin was active in the Soviet government from 1917 until his purge in 1937. His political and economic system of thought is known as Bukharinism.
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culture · Soviet revolutionary and politician (1888–1938) · politician · economist · philosopher · journalist · writer · editing staff · also Nikolai Bukharin, Nikolay Ivanovich Bukharin, Nikolay Bukharin, Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Bukharin
Born 9 October 1888 · Died 15 March 1938 · Q186709
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2026· 2 entries
“A second party is necessary. If there is only one electoral list, without opposition, that”
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2011· 1 entry
Libcom: Anarchy and Scientific Communism - Nikolai Bukharin
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2006· 1 entry
“Koba, why do you need me to die?”
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1949· 1 entry
But survived past 1988, though they had lived in fear of the government their whole lives
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1938· 5 entries
Died 1938-03-15.
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“Opis: po spotkaniu z kobietą, które doradził mu lekarz w celu wyleczenia się z pracoholizmu, jaki przejawiał angażując się w program sowieckiej rewolucji.”
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“Przyznaję się, że byłem jednym z wiodących przywódców bloku prawicy i trockistów. Tym samym przyznaję się do odpowiedzialności za całokształt przestępstw, których dopuściła się ta kontrrewolucyjna organizacja, bez względu na to, czy o nich wiedziałem, czy nie, czy brałem w nich udział, czy też nie. Ciąży bowiem na mnie odpowiedzialność przywódcy, a nie jednego z szeregowych członków.”
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“Opis: z osobistego listu do Józefa Stalina, który dawniej miał pseudonim „Koba.”
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“Opis: o Józefie Stalinie.”
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1937· 1 entry
"For the sake of Gorky I am asking you for mercy, even if he may be guilty of something", to which Stalin noted: "We must not respond
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1936· 1 entry
Bukharin and Rykov were arrested on 27 February 1937 following a plenum of the Central Committee, and were charged with conspiring to overthrow the Soviet state
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1934· 2 entries
Was arranged by Stalin himself, despite the lack of evidence to plausibly posit such a conclusion
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Bukharin was reelected to the Central Committee and became editor of the newspaper Izvestia
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1928· 1 entry
Stalin reversed himself and proposed a program of rapid industrialization and forced collectivization because he believed that the NEP was not working fast enough
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1924· 4 entries
Career landmark: Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1924–1929).
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Which argued that socialism (in Marxist–Leninist theory, the period of transition to communism) could be developed in a single country, even one as underdeveloped as Russia
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Bukharin became a full member of the Politburo
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And stated that it had been "a period when the party stood a hair from a split, and the whole country a hair from ruin"
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1921· 1 entry
Supported the introduction of the New Economic Policy (NEP) and became its chief theorist and advocate, supporting the party leadership against Trotsky and the Left Opposition
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1919· 1 entry
Career landmark: Candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1919–1924).
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1918· 1 entry
And during the civil war wrote The ABC of Communism (1920; with Yevgeni Preobrazhensky) and Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology (1921), among other works
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1912· 1 entry
To meet Vladimir Lenin for the first time
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1911· 3 entries
Soon after returning from internal exile
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After a brief imprisonment, Bukharin was exiled to Onega in Arkhangelsk, but he soon escaped to Hanover
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Studied at Moscow Imperial University, Faculty of Law (1906–1911).
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1910· 1 entry
Was arrested and internally exiled to Onega, but the following year he escaped abroad, where he met Lenin and Leon Trotsky and built his reputation with works such as Imperialism and World Economy (1915)
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1906· 3 entries
And became a member of its Bolshevik faction
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And studied economics at Moscow Imperial University
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Studied at First Moscow gymnasium (1906).
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1888· 1 entry
Born 1888-10-09.
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