biography
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Bukharin, Nikolay Ivanovich
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pronunciation:
[bookharin]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1888–1938)
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| biography:
| Russian Marxist revolutionary and political theorist, born in Moscow, Russia. Called by Lenin ‘the darling of the Party’, he was active in the Bolshevik underground (1905–17), and after the Febuary Revolution returned to Russia, playing a leading role in the organization of the October Revolution in Moscow. As a member of the Politburo (1924–9) he was a firm supporter of Lenin's New Economic Policy, and opposed Stalin's collectivization campaign. In 1937 he was arrested in Stalin's Great Purge, expelled from the Party, tried on trumped-up charges, and shot. In 1987 he was officially rehabilitated by a board of judicial inquiry, and posthumously readmitted to the Party in 1988. |
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