Nikolai Bukharin Was A Man Deeply Devoted To The Soviet

Nikolai Bukharin was a man deeply devoted to the Soviet cause and the spread and success of Communism. He entered the political scene at the age young of 16, still a student himself, and was once described by Lenin as being the â€Å"golden boy of the revolution (Gregory 2010). Unfortunately, Bukharin could not know that his political goals and desires would be his downfall and the cause of his execution on March 14th 1938, betrayed by a man he once considered a friend, Joseph Stalin. Reduced to just one of the 328,618 victims during 1938 as part of Stalin’s Great Terror (Kuromiya 2007,713). In final months of his imprisonment, and life, he wrote many letters to Stalin. Notably , in his December 10th 1937 letter, he pleaded for mercy, for†¦show more content†¦Ultimately though this would contribute to Stalin’s persecution of him. As in 1928 Stalin flipped on his opinion of the NEP, instead pushing his own Five Year Plan. Which forcefully created the kolkhoz collective farms, in hopes of rapid industrialization that would bring Russia to the same levels as other developed, Capitalist nations, regardless of the cost of human lives. This plan was highly successful in eliminating the wealthy peasants known as the kulaks, thus further cementing Stalin’s control over the Soviet state (Gregory 2010). After Lenin’s death in 1924, Bukharin allied himself with Stalin with his Socialism in One Country, which moved away from the idea of Global Communism that Bukharin and the rest of the communist party had previously supported and endorsed, as they believed communism needed to be done in a more developed nation. Instead it proposed that socialism could be created even in an undeveloped country, and that Russia could and ultimately should focus on building socialism within itself. This idea would become a key of Stalin’s political beliefs and actions. By helping to support and promote this idea Bukharin aided Stalin in removing other key Bolsheviks from power, such as Trotsky, once again increasing Stalin’s power. Bukharin, while regarded as a strong theorist for Marxism, and generally a likable man, also had a reputation for being soft. Moreover and increasingly dangerous a man who known to speak withoutShow MoreRelatedEssay on Stalin2761 Words   |  12 PagesStalin Stalin, whose original name was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, was born on Dec. 21, 1879, in the Caucasian town of Gori, Georgia. He was the only one of four children to survive infancy. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, an unsuccessful cobbler, entered a factory in Tiflis, took to drink, and died in 1890 from wounds received in a brawl. However, his mother, Yekaterina, kept the family together by taking in washing and sewing, hiring out for housework, and nursing young Joseph