Word: bukharin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brilliant Nikolai Bukharin, former head of the Third International, said: "When you ask yourself, 'If you must die, what are you dying for?' an absolutely black vacuity suddenly rises before you with startling vividness. There was nothing to die for if one wanted to die unrepented. And . . . everything positive that glistens in the Soviet Union acquires new dimensions in a man's mind...
...much exposed to the twin influences of love and the Soviet state. Her father, Finnish-born Otto Kuusinen (now Vice President of the U.S.S.R.'s Supreme Soviet), was an agile ideologist whose fancy footwork had kept him Secretary of the Comintern during the chairmanships of Zinoviev and Bukharin. Hertta's heart interest was stocky, heavy-jowled Tuure Lehen, an ardent young Communist who had won fame as the author of texts on mob fighting and strike tactics. In stolen moments together at Moscow's Lux Hotel, Tuure's whispered tales of the beauties of mob violence...
...cooked up an act. The next day, I pushed my way into a meeting of the Politburo ... I began to pound the table, to cry that I must ... go home ... I fainted. When I came to, Bukharin was trying to feed me tea. 'Ruth,' he told me, 'you will go home. We are not terrorists against our own comrades . . .' I departed the same day." Stalin subsequently had Zinoviev and Bukharin shot, but for other reasons...
...Soviet State Publishing House put out Volume One of a projected Big Soviet Encyclopedia. Its title page listed Shmidt as chief of a 14-man board of editors made up entirely of Old Bolsheviks; Karl Radek and Nicolai Bukharin were among them. As years passed, and volume followed volume to the presses, purge followed purge. Radek was imprisoned, Bukharin shot, and one by one the names on Volume One's title page disappeared in Stalin's great liquidation. By 1938, when the purge was hottest and Volume 37 appeared, Shmidt alone was left; he kept cool and smiling...
...year history of the Soviet Union, philosophical quarrels have sometimes had fatal results. Long before he was tried for alleged treason and executed, Nikolai Bukharin had been attacked for philosophical deviation. But Bukharin never recanted. Aleksandrov did, and last week Pravda reported: "Aleksandrov fully agreed with the criticism, acknowledged that his book had serious failures and mistakes, and agreed that the whole organization of a new scientific work in the branch of philosophy should be fundamentally changed...