Nikolai Bukharin

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin was a Russian Marxist Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician. He was a member of the Politburo (1924-1929) and Central Committee (1917-1937) general secretary of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (Comintern 1926-1929) and the editor in chief of Pravda (1918-1929) the journal Bolshevik (1924-1929) Izvestia (1934-1936) and the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Initially a supporter of Joseph Stalin after Vladimir Lenin's death he came to oppose a large number of Stalin's policies and was one of Stalin's most prominent victims during the Moscow Trials and purges of the Old Bolsheviks in the late 1930s. Includes: - Toward a Theory of the Imperialist State - The Russian Revolution and Its Significance - Anarchy and Scientific Communism - New Forms of the World Crisis - Theory and Practice from the Standpoint of Dialectical Materialism