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

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

“For when you ask yourself, ‘If you must die, what are you dying for?,’ an absolutely black vacuity suddenly rises before you with startling vividness,” Bukharin said in the courtroom.

From The New Yorker

As Nikolai Bukharin, a close Lenin ally, was told during his own trial, his job was “to confess and repent, not to argue”.

From Economist

Remarkably, it employed not only Trotsky but Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, who would go on to become another important leader of the Russian Revolution until, like Trotsky, he fell to Stalin’s purges.

From The New Yorker

On the very day he arrived by ship in New York in January 1917, Leon Trotsky, who would become Lenin’s leading lieutenant in revolutionary Russia, was met by the editor Nikolai Bukharin.

From New York Times