riceandweed on Nostr: “Bukharin guided the opposition of the communist left to the Treaty of ...

“Bukharin guided the opposition of the communist left to the Treaty of Brestlitovsk. He affirmed that the Bolsheviks had to continue the military effort and transform it into a worldwide push for the proletarian revolution. In 1921 he changed his position and accepted Lenin's policies, encouraging the development of the New Political Economy. In Lenin’s will, Bukharin was dearly defined as “the Party’s favourite son”. After Lenin’s death he became a fully-fledged member of the Politburo in 1924 and president of the Communist International (CS) and (Comintern) in 1926.”- S.F. Cohen, Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: a Political Biography,
1888-1938 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973), 45-170.

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