Bukharin

Bukharin, Nikolai; Cohen, Steven & George Shriver. How It All Began The Prison Novel. Columbia University Press, 1999.
Moderate cover wear. Text unmarked. ; 0.85 x 9.08 x 6.08 Inches; <P> -- <I>New York Times</I></P><br/><br/><P>Here at last in English is Nikolai Bukharin's autobiographical novel and final work. Many dissident texts of the Stalin era were saved by chance, by bravery, or by cunning; others were systematically destroyed. Bukharin's work, however, was simultaneously preserved and suppressed within Stalin's personal archives. </P><P>At once novel, memoir, political apology, and historical document, <I>How It All Began</I>, known in Russia as "the prison novel," adds deeply to our understanding of this vital intellectual and maligned historical figure. The panoramic story, composed under the worst of circumstances, traces the transformation of a sensitive young man into a fiery agitator, and presents a revealing new perspective on the background and causes of the revolution that transformed the face of the twentieth century.</P><P>Among the millions of victims of the reign of terror in the Soviet Union of the 1930's, Bukharin stands out as a special case. Not yet 30 when the Bolsheviks took power, he was one of the youngest, most popular, and most intellectual members of the Communist Party. In the 1920's and 30's, he defended Lenin's liberal New Economic Policy, claiming that Stalin's policies of forced industrialization constituted a "military-feudal exploitation" of the masses. He also warned of the approaching tide of European fascism and its threat to the new Bolshevik revolution. For his opposition, Bukharin paid with his freedom and his life. He was arrested and spent a year in prison. In what was one of the most infamous "show trials" of the time, Bukharin confessed to being a "counterrevolutionary" while denying any particular crime and was executed in his prison cell on March 15, 1938.</P><P>While in prison, Bukharin wrote four books, of which this unfinished novel was the last. It traces the development of Nikolai "Kolya" Petrov (closely modeled on Nikolai "Kolya" Bukharin) from his early childhood though to age fifteen. In lyrical and poetic terms it paints a picture of Nikolai's growing political consciousness and ends with his activism on the eve of the failed 1905 revolution. The novel is presented here along with the only surviving letter from Bukharin to his wife during his time in prison, an epistle filled with fear, longing, and hope for his family and his nation. The introduction by Stephen F. Cohen articulates Bukharin's significance in Soviet history and reveals the troubled journey of this novel from Stalin's archives into the light of day.</P>. 0231107315.

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People's Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R.: Report Of Court Proceedings In The Case Of The Anti-Soviet "Bloc Of Rights And Trotskyites". Heard Before The Military Collegium Of The Supreme Court Of The U.S.S.R., Moscow, March 2-13, 1938. In Re: N.I. Bukharin, A.I. Rykov, G.G. Yagode....u.a.Verbatim Report. Moscow, People's Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R., 1938.

800 S., Gr.-8°, HLeinen, Außen etwas fleckig, Ecken, Kanten und Kapitale bestoßen. Innen sehr guter Zustand. Prozeßprotokoll der Moskauer Schau-Prozesse gegen den Trotzkisten Bucharin u.a. in englischer Sprache: The case of Nikolai Bukharin was set during the last of the Moscow Trials. On March 13th 1938 he was, along with Alexei Rykov, Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Krestinsky, Arkady Rosengoltz, Vladimir Ivanov, Mikhail Chernov, Grigori Grinko, Isaac Zelensky, Akmal Ikramov, Faizulla Khodjayev, Vasili Sharangovich, Prokopy Zubarev, Pavel Bulanov, Lev Levin, Ignaty Kazakov, Veyamin Maximov-Dikovsky and Pyotr Kryuchkov, found guilty "of having committed extremely grave state offences covered by articles 58-1a, 58-2, 58-7, 58-8, 58-9 and 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the R.S.F.S.R. (...) and guided by Article 319 and 320 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the R.S.F.S.R. (...) to be shot, with the confiscation of all personal property." He was found guilty of: "being irreconcilable enemies of the Soviet power, on instructions of the intellkigence services of foreign states hostile to the U.S.S.R., in (they) 1932-33 organized a conspiratorical group known as the 'bloc of Rights and Trotskyites', which united underground anti-Soviet groups of Trotskyites, Rights, Zinovievites, Mensheviks, Socialist-Revolutionaries and bourgeois-nationalists of the Ukraine, Byelorussia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Central Asiatic Republics." The Soviet Court also found that: "On the instructions of enemy of the people L. Trotsky, and of leading participants in the 'bloc of Rights and Trotskyites' - Bukharin, Ryjkov and Yagoda - (...) with obviously treasonable purposes, entered into direct relations with representatives of foreign states hostile to the U.S.S.R. and negotiated with them regarding the forms of assistance to be given to the aggressors in event of their attack upon the Soviet Union (organization of terrorist, diversive and wrecking acts and espionage). The leaders of 'the block of Rights and Trotskyites,' Rykov, Bukharin and Yagoda among their number, were not only fully informed of the espionage activities of their accomplies, but in every way encouraged the extension of espionage connections, and themselves gave instructions to the participants in 'the bloc of Rights and Trotskyites' when they conducted their treasonable negotiations with representatives of foreign states, thus expediting preparations for foreign intervention." The Court further claimed that "in 1918 Bukharin, and the group of 'Left Communists' headed by him, in conjunction with Trotsky and the 'Left' Socialist-Revolutionaries. The aim of Bukharin and his fellow-conspirators was to thwart the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, to overthrow the Soviet government, to arrest and assassinate V.I. Lenin, J.V. Stalin and J.M. Sverdlov and to form a new governments consisting of Bukharinites, Trotskyites and 'Left' Socialist-Revolutionaries. In executing the plan of the conspiracy, the 'Left' Socialist-Revolutionaries in July 1918, with the knowledge and consent of Bukharin, raised a revolt in Moscow with the object of overthrowing the Soviet government; it has been further established that the attempt on the life of V.I. Lenin committed by the Socialist-Revolutionary Kaplan on August 20, 1918, was the direct result of the criminal designs af the 'Left Communists,' headed by Bukharin, and of their confederates, the 'Left' and the Right Socialist-Revolutionaries" In 1961, Bukharin's wife, Anna Larina, was finally able to deliver Bukharin's "last testament," completely repudiating these "confessions," to a Party control commission investigating the case for his rehabilitation. Looking back on his testimony and trial, Anna Larina said: "But the most amazing thing is that, despite everything, the time of shining hopes had not passed for him. He would pay for these hopes with his head. Moreover, one reason for his preposterous confessions in the dock - incomplete, but sufficiently egregious confessions - was precisely this: he still hoped that the idea to which he had dedicated his life would triumph." [Anna Larina, This I Cannot Forget, Pandora, 1994] Auszug aus dem Prozeßbericht des letzten Tages: THE COMMANDANT OF THE COURT: The Court is coming, please rise. THE PRESIDENT: Please be seated. The session is resumed. Accused Bukharin, you may make your last plea. Bukharin: Citizen President and Citizens Judges, I fully agree with Citizen the Procurator regarding the significance of the trial, at which were exposed our dastardly crimes, the crimes committed by the "bloc of Rights and Trotskyites," one of whose leaders I was, and for all the activities of which I bear responsibility. This trial, which is the concluding one of a series of trials, has exposed all the crimes and the treasonable activities, it has expaced the historical significance arid the roots of our struggle against the Party and the Soviet government. I have been in prison for over a year, and I therefore do riot know what is going on in the world. But, judging from those fragments of real life that sometimes reached me by chance, I see, feel and understand that the interests which we so criminally betrayed are entering a new phase of gigantic development, are now appearing in the international arena as a great and mighty factor of the international proletarian phase. We, the accused, are sitting on the other side of the barrier, and this barrier separates us from you, Citizens Judges. We found ourselves in the accursed ranks of the counter- revolution, became traitors to the Socialist fatherland. At the very beginning of the trial, in answer to the question of Citizen the President, whether I pleaded guilty, I replied by a confession. In answer to the question of Citizen the President whether I confirmed the testimony I had given, I replied that I confirmed it fully and entirely. When, at the end of the preliminary investigation, I was summoned for interrogation to the State Prosecutor, who controlled the sum total of the materials of the investigation, he summarized them as follows (Vol. V, p. 114, December 1, 1937): Question: Were you a member of the centre of the counter-revolutionary organization of the Rights? I answered: Yes, I admit it. Second question: Do you admit that the centre of the antiSoviet organization, of which you are a member, engaged in counter-revolutionary activities and set itself the aim of violently overthrowing the leadership of the Party and the government? I answered: Yes, I admit it. Third question: Do you admit that this centre engaged in terrorist activities, organized kulak uprisings and prepared for Whiteguard kulak uprisings against members of the Political Bureau, against the leadership of the Party and the Soviet power? I answered: It is true. Fourth question: Do you admit that you are guilty of treasonable activities; as expressed in preparations for a conspiracy aiming at a 'coup d'etat? I answered: Yes, that Is also true. In Court I admitted and still admit my guilt in respect to the crimes which I committed and of which I was accused by Citizen the State Prosecutor at the end of the Court investigation and on the basis of the materials of the investigation in the possession of the Procurator. I declared also in Court, and I stress and repeat it now, that I regard myself politically responsible for the sum total -of the crimes committed by the "bloc of Rights and Trotskyites." I have merited the most severe punishment, and I agree with Citizen the Procurator, who several times repeated that I stand on the threshold of my hour of death. Nevertheless, I consider that I have the right to refute certain charges which were brought: a) in the printed Indictment, b) during the Court investigation, and c) in the speech for the prosecution made by Citizen the Procurator of the U.S.S.R. I consider it necessary to mention that during my interrogation by Citizen the State Prosecutor, the latter declared in a ve...

[SW: Geschichte, Politik, Recht, Moskau, Moskauer Prozess, Bucharin, Kommunismus, Sozialismus, Rußland, U.d.S.S.R.R., U.S.S.R., 20.Jahrhundert]

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Nikolai Bukharin: How it All Begam: The Prison Novel, Seagull Books ,2000 ,Calcutta ISBN: 8170461723

Presents in English Nikolai Bukharin's autobiographical novel which escaped destruction by Stalin. Adds greatly to our understanding of Bukharin and presents a new perspective on the background and causes of the revolution that transformed the twentieth century.; Paperback

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Sunil Sen: N. Bukharin. Political Testament of Lenin. Editet by Sunil Sen. In englischer Sprache. First edition, Chatterjee Publisher Calcutta

1989; 44 Seiten; Format21,5 x 13,5 cm; Karton-Umschlag. Von Sunil Sen am 20.2.1989 signiert. Bukharin's essay, Political Testament of Lenin, was designed to fight Stalinism. In the Past-Lenin era he tried to remain a Leninist while clinging to Smychka. Bukharin's ideas which sank into oblivion have at last begun to grip the attention of the Marxists. Sunil Sen, formerly Professor of History, Rabindra Bharati University, is the author of seven books including economic policy & development of India, the house of tata, peasants movements in India, the working women and popuar struggles in Bengal; gut erhalten

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