Bukharin
Americannoun
noun
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He argued that Stalin’s repressive, autocratic regime was not inevitable and that history would have turned out differently if Bukharin and his more progressive ideas had been at the center of Soviet society.
From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2020
“For when you ask yourself, ‘If you must die, what are you dying for?,’ an absolutely black vacuity suddenly rises before you with startling vividness,” Bukharin said in the courtroom.
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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