Bukharin

[ boo-khah-rin ]

noun

1. Ni·ko·lai I·va·no·vich [nyi-kuh-, lahy, ee-, vah, -n, uh, -vyich], 1888–1938, Russian editor, writer, and Communist leader.

Bukharin

/ buˈxarin /

noun

1. BukharinNikolai Ivanovich18881938MRussianPOLITICS: politician Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1888–1938, Soviet Bolshevik leader: executed in one of Stalin's purges

Example Sentences

In truth, the book’s central character is neither of the rather thinly drawn leads, but Erpenbeck’s mind, which patrols the borders of bourgeois assumption like a crossing agent, invoking Hölderlin, Gorky, Bukharin, Mozart and Brecht, wrestling with love and time.

From Los Angeles Times

Bukharin, a cosmopolitan figure who wrote several books and was the editor of the official Communist Party newspaper Pravda, was seen as a possible heir to Lenin.

From Washington Post

At Dr. Cohen’s urging, an official review commission declared in 1988 that Bukharin had been wrongly convicted and executed.

From Washington Post

“Bukharin, like Leon Trotsky,” Dr. Cohen wrote, “embodied the internationalist traditions of Soviet Communism before its descent into Stalinist chauvinism.”

From Washington Post

For more than four years after Lenin’s death in 1924, Bukharin shared Communist Party leadership with Stalin, only to fall out of favor.

From Washington Post