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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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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

Yet there was ambiguity in that “consider myself responsible,” for Bukharin insisted that he was unaware of any of the specific plots of sabotage and assassination with which he had been charged.

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