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Bukharin

American  
[boo-khah-rin] / buˈxɑ rɪn /

noun

  1. Nikolai Ivanovich 1888–1938, Russian editor, writer, and Communist leader.


Bukharin British  
/ buˈxarin /

noun

  1. Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1888–1938, Soviet Bolshevik leader: executed in one of Stalin's purges

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Dr. Cohen, a longtime professor at Princeton and later New York University, built his academic reputation on a 1973 biography of Nikolai Bukharin, a key figure in the Russian Revolution of 1917.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2020

Like all the other defendants, Bukharin ended up pleading guilty, and the new edition of “Darkness at Noon” usefully reproduces a speech that he gave at his trial.

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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