Nikolai Bukharin Biography

Appointed Member of Bolshevik Party

Placed under arrest

Placed under arrest

Exiled to the Arkhangelsk region

Exiled to the Arkhangelsk region

Escapes from exikle & returns to Russia during the February revolution

Escapes from exikle & returns to Russia during the February revolution

Appointed Editor of Novy Mir

Appointed Editor of Novy Mir

Appointed Editor of Novy Mir

Appointed Member of Vesenkha

Appointed Member of Vesenkha

Returns to Moscow via Japan & Siberia

Returns to Moscow via Japan & Siberia

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

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

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

Contributes to early Communist International doctrine

Helps shape ideological debate at the Communist International

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

Appointed Member of Politburo

Appointed Chairman of the Communist International, Comintern

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

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"

Appointed Chairman of the Communist International, Comintern

1st to use the expression, "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?"

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

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

Publication of "Imperialism & the World Economy"

Dismissed from the Politburo

Appointed Editor of Izvestiya

Pens the new constitution

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

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

Implicated in the Zinoviev & Kamanev show trials & arrested

Accused of plotting to kill Lenin during the Brest Litovsk negotiations in 1918

Accused of plotting to kill Lenin during the Brest Litovsk negotiations in 1918

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

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

Death of Nikolai Bukharin

Executed by a bullet in the back of the head

Publication of "The Conscience of the Revolution"

Publication of "The ABC of Communism"

Publication of "The Trial of Bukharin"

Rehabilitated by the USSR Supreme Soviet