Bukharin
Americannoun
noun
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Bukharin, a cosmopolitan figure who wrote several books and was the editor of the official Communist Party newspaper Pravda, was seen as a possible heir to Lenin.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2020
The figure Rubashov especially evokes is Nikolai Bukharin, a veteran theorist of revolution who was the most famous of the defendants in the Moscow Trials.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019
As Nikolai Bukharin, a close Lenin ally, was told during his own trial, his job was “to confess and repent, not to argue”.
From Economist ● Dec. 19, 2017
He wrote a biography of the Bolshevik revolutionary Nikolai Bukharin and is a contributing editor at the Nation, which his wife, Katrina vanden Heuvel, edits and publishes.
From Slate ● May 30, 2017
"Um-m-m, made a very strong case for Bukharin, in particular."
From Freedom by Mack Reynolds
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