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Nikolai Bukharin

1888–1938 · 20th century

Nikolai Bukharin was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist, editor of Pravda and a leading member of the Politburo in the 1920s. He defended Lenin's New Economic Policy and gradual development of agriculture, allied with Stalin against Trotsky and then opposed forced collectivisation, for which he was removed in 1929. Accused of treason in the last great Moscow show trial, he was shot in March 1938.

Nikolai Bukharin
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