Chapter 2: Bukharin

Question 1

What generation was Bukharin?

Answer 1

Younger generation

Question 2

How much younger was Bukharin compared to Stalin?

Answer 2

A decade younger

Question 3

Who was 10 years senior than Bukharin?

Answer 3

Stalin

Question 4

When did Bukharin join the Bolsheviks?

Answer 4

1906

Question 5

What did Bukharin join in 1906?

Answer 5

Bolsheviks party

Question 6

What did Bukharin organise in 1906?

Answer 6

Strike in a boot factory

Question 7

When did Bukharin organise a strike in a boot factory?

Answer 7

1906

Question 8

What happened in 1912?

Answer 8

Bukharin was arrested

Question 9

When was Bukharin arrested?

Answer 9

1912

Question 10

What was the impact of Bukharin being arrested in 1912?

Answer 10

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

Question 11

What did Bukharin write to Lenin?

Answer 11

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

Question 12

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’?

Answer 12

Lenin

Question 13

When was Bukharin a major figure in the Bolsheviks party?

Answer 13

Before 1917

Question 14

When did Bukharin take a leading role in Pravda?

Answer 14

November 1918

Question 15

What role did Bukharin acquire in November 1918?

Answer 15

Leading role in Pravda

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Showed great zeal

Question 17

What opposition did Bukharin lead after WWI?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

What did Bukharin do between 1920-21?

Answer 18

Criticised Lenin and Trotsky in the trade union controversy

Question 19

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

Answer 19

1920-21

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Trade union controversy

Question 21

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

Answer 21

criticise Lenin and Trotsky

Question 22

What policy did Bukharin support?

Answer 22

The economic policy

Question 23

What did a foreign ambassador say about Bukharin in 1921?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Foreign minister

Question 25

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

Answer 25

1921

Question 26

What did Bukharin become a member of in 1922?

Answer 26

Politburo

Question 27

When did Bukharin join the Politburo?

Answer 27

1922

Question 28

What was the nickname Lenin gave to Bukharin?

Answer 28

‘Golden boy’ of the communist party

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Lenin

Question 30

Where was Bukharins political stance in the party?

Answer 30

Right-wing which made him seem radical

Question 31

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

Answer 31

‘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’

Question 32

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’

Answer 32

Lenin’s Testament

Question 33

How did Lenin’s testament criticise Burkharin?

Answer 33

‘’

Question 34

What were Bukharins hobbies?

Answer 34

Loved poetry and novels | Liked enjoying himself

Question 35

What was the impact of Bukharin liking poetry and novels?

Answer 35

These were very popular

Question 36

What was the impact of Bukharin enjoying himself?

Answer 36

Made it hard for opponents to dislike him

Question 37

What were the strengths of Bukharin?

Answer 37

``` Impressive and likeable Intellectual and theoretician Popular Expert on economics and agriculture Argued his points fiercely ```

Question 38

What was the weakness of Bukharins?

Answer 38

No power base (Joined the Politburo in 1922) | Made tactical mistakes

Question 39

What happened to Bukharin in November 1929?

Answer 39

He was expelled from the Politburo

Question 40

When was Bukharin expelled from the Politburo?

Answer 40

November 1929

Question 41

What happened in March 1938?

Answer 41

Bukharin was executed after show trials

Question 42

When was Bukharin executed?

Answer 42

March 1938

Question 43

Strengths of Bukharin

Answer 43

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

Question 44

Weakness of Bukharin

Answer 44

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