Nikolai Bukharin Biography and Timeline

Bolshevik Party

Appointed Member of Bolshevik Party

Arrest of Nikolai Bukharin

Placed under arrest

Bolshevik Party

Placed under arrest

Bolshevik Party

Exiled to the Arkhangelsk region

Exile of Nikolai Bukharin

Exiled to the Arkhangelsk region

Bolshevik Party

Escapes from exikle & returns to Russia during the February revolution

Exile of Nikolai Bukharin

Escapes from exikle & returns to Russia during the February revolution

Bolshevik Party

Appointed Editor of Novy Mir

Editor

Appointed Editor of Novy Mir

Novy Mir

Appointed Editor of Novy Mir

Bolshevik Party

Returns to Moscow via Japan & Siberia

Exile of Nikolai Bukharin

Returns to Moscow via Japan & Siberia

Vesenkha

Appointed Member of Vesenkha

Role range: 1917-1918

Vesenkha

Appointed Member of Vesenkha

Treaty of Brest Litovsk

Argues against accepting the Treaty of Litovsk at the 7th Congress but is defeated

Role range: 1914-1918

Resignation of Nikolai Bukharin

Resigns from the Vesenkha after failing to stop the Brest Litovsk Treaty

Role range: 1917-1918

Comintern Program

Contributes to early Communist International doctrine

Role range: 1919-1943

Politburo

The Politburo is first composed of Lenin, Trotsky, Kamanev, Bukharin & Stalin

Role range: 1917-1991

Comintern Program Debate

Helps shape ideological debate at the Communist International

Role range: 1919-1943

Conference of Communist Party

The party leadership decide to lower agricultural taxes. The party leadership decide to legalize hiring of labor & leasing of land. Suggests peasants be freed to increase food production

Role range: 1917-1991

Politburo

Appointed Member of Politburo

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1924-1929

Comintern

Stalin upholds the thesis of "socialism in one country", detailed by Nikolai Bukharin

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Chairman

Appointed Chairman of the Communist International, Comintern

Role range: 1917-1991

Comintern

After the death of Lenin there is a shift in the Cominterns focus from world revolution towards a defence of the Soviet state paerticularly when Joseph Stalin takes power and upholds "socialism in one country", detailed by Nikolai Bukharin in his brochure "Can We Build Socialism in One Country in the Absence of the Victory of the West-European Proletariat?". 1st to use the expression, "socialism in one country"

Role range: 1917-1991

Comintern

Appointed Chairman of the Communist International, Comintern

Role range: 1917-1991

Socialism In One Country

1st to use the expression, "socialism in one country"

Role range: 1917-1991

Socialism in One Country

After the death of Lenin there is a shift in the Cominterns focus from world revolution towards a defence of the Soviet state paerticularly when Joseph Stalin takes power and upholds "socialism in one country", detailed by Nikolai Bukharin in his brochure "Can We Build Socialism in One Country in the Absence of the Victory of the West-European Proletariat?"

Role range: 1917-1991

Comintern

The policy of Socialism in one country is finalized as e state policy after Stalins January 1926 article On the Issues of Leninism

Role range: 1917-1991

Socialism in One Country

The policy of Socialism in one country is finalized as e state policy after Stalins January 1926 article On the Issues of Leninism

Role range: 1917-1991

Dismissal

Dismissed from the Politburo

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1924-1929

Imperialism and the World Economy

Publication of "Imperialism & the World Economy"

Editor

Appointed Editor of Izvestiya

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1934-1936

Arrest of Nikolai Bukharin

Arrested for counter-revolutionary activities, released due to insufficient evidence

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1934-1936

Constitution of Russia

Pens the new constitution

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1934-1936

Purge

Expelled from the CP during Stalins "great purges" of the Party

Role range: 1917-1991

Arrest of Nikolai Bukharin

Implicated in the Zinoviev & Kamanev show trials & arrested

Role range: 1917-1991

Pravda

Nikolay Bukharin, a revolutionary economist who helped edit Pravda with Lenin, is put on trial and executed in the purges

Role range: 1917-1991

Trial

Nikolay Bukharin, a revolutionary economist who helped edit Pravda with Lenin, is put on trial and executed in the purges

Role range: 1917-1991

Death of Nikolai Bukharin

Death of Nikolai Bukharin

Role range: 1917-1991

Execution

Executed by a bullet in the back of the head

Role range: 1917-1991