Ideologies / Leninist-Marxist / Nikolai Bukharin
§ The minds · 1888–1938 · Russia · Theorist & politician
Nikolai Bukharin
The party's favourite
Gradualism, then the purge.
Economic−90
SocialistMarket
Governance+70
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+35
TraditionalProgressive
The brilliant Bolshevik theorist who championed a gentler economic path, lost to Stalin, and was executed in the show trials he could not escape.
social
Modernist intellectual of the revolutionary generation.
economic
Backed the mixed New Economic Policy before Stalin's forced collectivisation.
governance
Leading Bolshevik theorist; consumed by the dictatorship he helped build.
Notable for
- Leading NEP advocate
- 'The ABC of Communism'
- Victim of the 1938 show trial
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