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BUKHARIN, Nikolay was born on September 27, 1888 in Moscow. Son of a teacher.
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Nikolay Ivanovich BUKHARIN
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Education
Graduate high-school. From 1907 studied at Economy Department, Law Faculty, Moscow University.
Career
1905 joined student revol group. 1906 did Party propaganda work in Zamoskvorech’ye Rayon, Moscow. 1907-1908 propagandist and agitator, Khamovniki Rayon, Moscow.
1908 coopted member, Moscow Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committee. 1909-1910 twice arrested. 1911 emigrated to Germany, where he lived in Hanover.
Fall 1912 met Linin, began to write regularly and contribute articles to Pravda and Prosvesltcheniye. 1912-1914 worked among Russian Social-Democrats in Vienna. 1914 arrested on espionage charges by Austrian police shortly before outbreak of World War 1 and deported to Switzerland after Austrian Social-Dcmocratic leaders testified on his behalf.
Attended Berne Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Confercnce;July 1915 moved to Sweden under the alias Dolgolevskiy. 1916 arrested for anti-war statements and deported to Norway. While living in Scandinavia differed with Lenin on theoretical questions concerning the nationalities problem and the role of the stale.
October 1916 left Norway and entered United States of America illegally via Denmark. Edited newspaper Novyy mir in New York and made propaganda tour of American cities. After 1917 February Revol returned to Russia via Japan and was elected to Executive Committee, Moscow Soviet and Moscow Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committee.
Editor, journals Sotsial-demokrat and Spartak. At 6th Party Congress elected to Central Committee, of which he was a member until 1934 and then a candidate member until 1937. From October 1917 member, Moscow Military—Revol Committee and ed, newspaper Izvestiya Moskovskogo voyenno-revolyutsionnogo komiteta.
From late December 1917 until conclusion of Peace of Brest-Litovsk (3 March 1918) ed, Pravda: as an opponent of a separate peace with Germany became leader of ’’leftist Communists” group and ed, newspaper Kommunist. Summer 1918-1931 again ed, Pravda. 1917-1918 and later undertook many trips abroad for Communist Party and Communist International.
1918 met Karl Liebknecht in Germany and established contacts between Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the Spartacists, thus exposing German Communists to Bolshevik influende. November 1918 expelled from Germany with Soviet embassy staff a few days before the outbrek of the Revol. 1922 dcleg. Conference of the Three Internationals, Berlin.
1923 visited Norway; played a leading role in Communist International from its inception. Helped to organize 1st Communist International Congress, at which he was elected to the Executive Committee and Presidium. Reelected to these organs at all subsequent congresses.
At 2nd Communist International Congress delivered paper on parliamentarianism. At 3rd Communist International Congress took part in debate on tactical questions. At 4th and 5th Communist International Congresses delivered papers on Communist International program
1920-1921 during trade-union controversy first adopted a middle-of-the-road position, then sided with Trotsky. From 1928, together with Rykov and Tomsky, led ’’rightist deviationists” in Communist Party and Communist International. 1929 removed from Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and from Presidium, Communist International Executive Committee.
1931 Presidium member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Economic Council. Foreign a number of years professor, Moscow University. 1934-1937 ed, Izvestia.
Member, All-Russian and Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Central Executive Committee of various convocations: active in Party congresses and conferences. Delivered innumerable speeches at workers’ and Party meetings Drafted many Parly documents.
Read several lecture courses. Published numerous pamphlets, popular books, articles and several important theoretical works. March 1937 expelled from All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and sentenced to death at trial of "antiSoviet rightist Trotskyite center”.
Membership
Communist Party member from 1906.
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Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics