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Nikolay Bukharin, Bolshevik and Marxist theoretician and economist, who was a prominent leader of the Communist International (Comintern). (Read Leon Trotsky’s 1926 Britannica essay on Lenin.) Having become a revolutionary while studying economics, Bukharin joined the Russian Social-Democratic.

Nikolai Bukharin was the most prominent political prisoner ever held in the Internal Prison of the NKVD. Dubbed the “golden boy” of the revolution by Lenin himself, Bukharin had nonetheless fallen by degrees from the apex of the party hierarchy.

1. The Indictment. 2. The Pleas. 3. Bukharin’s Last Plea. The Indictment. …. The investigation instituted by the organs of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs has established that on the instructions of the intelligence services of foreign states hostile to the USSR the accused in the present case organized a conspiratorial ...

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and Marxist theorist. A prolific author on economic theory, Bukharin was a prominent Bolshevik and was active in the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1917 until his purge in the 1930s.

Scholars. H. Roger-Viollet. (1888–1938). Russian revolutionary and leader of the Bolshevik party. Nikolay Bukharin came to prominence as one of the leading figures of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. In the years following the revolution, Bukharin was a leading figure of the radical left wing of the Bolshevik party.

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin. The Soviet politician and writer Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1858-1938) was a leading theorist of the Communist movement during the Revolutionary period in Russia and throughout the 1920s. Nikolai Bukharin was born in Moscow, the son of a schoolteacher.

Bukharin was obsessed with the second danger—the return to coercion—which he attributed, in many virulent speeches, to the Left Opposition. 26 The Trotskyites, in turn, were equally obsessed and accused Bukharin and his supporters of ‘defeatism’, charges which were later taken up by Stalin, and his supporters, and put Bukharin’s ...

BUKHARIN, NIKOLAI (1888–1938) Russian Bolshevik leader. Born in Moscow into a middle-class intelligentsia family, Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin joined the Bolshevik Party in 1906 after participating in the revolutionary events of the year before. In 1917 he was one of the leaders of the Bolshevik party organization in Moscow.