  nikolai ivanovich bukharin (;  â 15 march 1938) was a russian bolshevik revolutionary, soviet politician and prolific author on revolutionary theory. as a young man, he spent six years in exile, working closely with fellow-exiles lenin and trotsky. after the revolution of february 1917, he returned to moscow, where his bolshevik credentials earned him a high rank in the party, and after the october revolution, he became editor of the party newspaper pravda. within the bitterly divided bolsheviks, his gradual move to the right, as a defen
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