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Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian Bolshevik Revolutionary, Soviet Politician And Communist Revolutionary Theorist Author, Was Killed In Stalin's Great Purge Of 1936, Discrediting Him In Soviet History Thereafter; But With The Coming Of Glasnost, His Place In History Was Rehabilitated, And The Truth About His Persecution That Were Hidden Since His Execution At Last Came Out. This Documentary Provides The West For The First Time On Television The True Account Of His Life, His Work And His Betrayal By Stalin, Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD, MP4 Video Download Or USB Flash Drive! (Color, 1988, 48 Minutes.) #NikolaiBukharin #Bolshevism #SocialismInOneCountry #TrialOfTheTwentyOne #ShowTrials #GreatPurge #GreatTerror #Pravda #NEP #NewEconomicPolicy #Communism #SovietUnion #SovietHistory #DVD #VideoDownload #MP4 #USBFlashDrive
Nikolai Bukharin, Russian journalist, Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician and prolific author on revolutionary theory (October 9, 1888 - March 15, 1938) was born Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin in Moscow, Russian Empire. As a young man, Bukharin spent six years in exile, working closely with fellow exiles Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. After the revolution of February 1917, he returned to Moscow, where his Bolshevik credentials earned him a high rank in the party, and after the October Revolution, he became editor of the party newspaper Pravda. Within the Bolshevik Party, Bukharin was initially a Left Communist, but his gradual move from the left to the right from 1921, as a strong supporter and defender of the New Economic Policy (NEP), eventually saw him lead the Right Opposition. By late 1924, this had positioned Bukharin favourably as Joseph Stalin's chief ally, with Bukharin soon elaborating Stalin's new theory and policy of Socialism in One Country. Together, Bukharin and Stalin ousted Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev from the party at the XVth Communist Party Congress in December 1927. From 1926 to 1929, Bukharin enjoyed great power as General Secretary of Comintern's executive committee. But Stalin's decision to proceed with collectivisation drove the two men apart, and Bukharin was expelled from the Politburo in 1929. When the Great Purge began in 1936, Stalin looked for any pretext to liquidate his former allies and rivals for power, and some of Bukharin's letters, conversations and tapped phone calls indicated disloyalty. Arrested in February 1937, he was charged with conspiring to overthrow the Soviet state and subjected to a show trial that alienated many Western communist sympathisers. Bukharin was executed by gunshot on 15 March 1938 at the Kommunarka shooting ground, but the announcement of his death was overshadowed by the Nazi Anschluss of Austria. Bukharin's last message to Stalin stated "Koba, why do you need me to die?", which was written in a note to Stalin just before his execution. "Koba" was Stalin's nom de guerre, and Bukharin's use of it was a sign of how close the two had once been. The note was allegedly found still in Stalin's desk after his death in 1953.