Chapter 2: Bukharin Flashcards

1
Q

What generation was Bukharin?

A

Younger generation

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2
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How much younger was Bukharin compared to Stalin?

A

A decade younger

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3
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Who was 10 years senior than Bukharin?

A

Stalin

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4
Q

When did Bukharin join the Bolsheviks?

A

1906

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5
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What did Bukharin join in 1906?

A

Bolsheviks party

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6
Q

What did Bukharin organise in 1906?

A

Strike in a boot factory

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7
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When did Bukharin organise a strike in a boot factory?

A

1906

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8
Q

What happened in 1912?

A

Bukharin was arrested

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9
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When was Bukharin arrested?

A

1912

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10
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What was the impact of Bukharin being arrested in 1912?

A

Escaped to Germany and in his travels abroad, he met Stalin

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11
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What did Bukharin write to Lenin?

A

‘I have the greatest respect for you and look on you as my revolutionary teacher and I love you’

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12
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Who did Bukharin say this to in a letter ‘I have the greatest respect for you and look on you as my revolutionary teacher and I love you’?

A

Lenin

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13
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When was Bukharin a major figure in the Bolsheviks party?

A

Before 1917

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14
Q

When did Bukharin take a leading role in Pravda?

A

November 1918

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15
Q

What role did Bukharin acquire in November 1918?

A

Leading role in Pravda

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16
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What was the impact of Bukharin in the leading role at Pravda?

A

Showed great zeal

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17
Q

What opposition did Bukharin lead after WWI?

A

Left-wing opposition to the signing of the Treaty off Brest-Litovsk

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18
Q

What did Bukharin do between 1920-21?

A

Criticised Lenin and Trotsky in the trade union controversy

19
Q

Betweeen what years did Bukharin criticise Lenin and Trotsky in the trade union controversy?

A

1920-21

20
Q

In what controversy did Bukharin criticise Lenin and Trotsky between 1920-21?

A

Trade union controversy

21
Q

What did Bukharin do during the 1920-21 trade union controversy?

A

criticise Lenin and Trotsky

22
Q

What policy did Bukharin support?

A

The economic policy

23
Q

What did a foreign ambassador say about Bukharin in 1921?

A

Claimed that he was Lenin’s successor and he had a ‘reputation for honesty, fairness and ncorruptibility ’

24
Q

Who claimed that Bukharin was Lenin’s successor and he had a ‘reputation for honesty, fairness and ncorruptibility ’ in 1921?

A

Foreign minister

25
Q

In what year did the foreign minister a ‘reputation for honesty, fairness and ncorruptibility ’?

A

1921

26
Q

What did Bukharin become a member of in 1922?

A

Politburo

27
Q

When did Bukharin join the Politburo?

A

1922

28
Q

What was the nickname Lenin gave to Bukharin?

A

‘Golden boy’ of the communist party

29
Q

Who called Bukharin the ‘Golden boy of the communist party’?

A

Lenin

30
Q

Where was Bukharins political stance in the party?

A

Right-wing which made him seem radical

31
Q

How did Lenin’s testament refer to the strengths of Bukharin character?

A

‘the biggest and most valuable theoretician in the party’
‘the favourite of the whole party’
‘his theoretical views can only with the greatest doubt be regarded as fully Marxist’

32
Q

Who regarded Bukharin strengths as:
‘the biggest and most valuable theoretician in the party’
‘the favourite of the whole party’
‘his theoretical views can only with the greatest doubt be regarded as fully Marxist’

A

Lenin’s Testament

33
Q

How did Lenin’s testament criticise Burkharin?

A

‘’

34
Q

What were Bukharins hobbies?

A

Loved poetry and novels

Liked enjoying himself

35
Q

What was the impact of Bukharin liking poetry and novels?

A

These were very popular

36
Q

What was the impact of Bukharin enjoying himself?

A

Made it hard for opponents to dislike him

37
Q

What were the strengths of Bukharin?

A
Impressive and likeable 
Intellectual and theoretician 
Popular
Expert on economics and agriculture 
Argued his points fiercely
38
Q

What was the weakness of Bukharins?

A

No power base (Joined the Politburo in 1922)

Made tactical mistakes

39
Q

What happened to Bukharin in November 1929?

A

He was expelled from the Politburo

40
Q

When was Bukharin expelled from the Politburo?

A

November 1929

41
Q

What happened in March 1938?

A

Bukharin was executed after show trials

42
Q

When was Bukharin executed?

A

March 1938

43
Q

Strengths of Bukharin

A

impressive and likeable brilliant intellectual and theoretician, popular, Lenin called him ‘the darling of the party’, open and cooperative, had friendly relations with all, expert on economics and agriculture

44
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Weakness of Bukharin

A

naive, lacked capability for intrigue, had no power base, underestimated Stalin, made tactical mistakes, target for Stalin’s enmity