Bukharin

American

[boo-khah-rin] / buˈxɑ rɪn /

noun

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

Bukharin British

/ buˈxarin /

noun

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

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For more than four years after Lenin’s death in 1924, Bukharin shared Communist Party leadership with Stalin, only to fall out of favor.

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 Reynolds, Mack

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