The Ideas of Nikolaĭ Bukharin / edited and introduced by A. Kemp-Welch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kemp-Welch, A., 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bukharin, Nikolaĭ, 1888-1938--Influence.

Bukharin, Nikolaĭ.

Bukharin, Nikolaĭ, 1888-1938.

Soviet Union--History--1917-1936.

Soviet Union.

History.

Communists--Soviet Union--Biography.

Communists.

Soviet Union--History--1925-1953.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

209 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

Summary:

Nikolai Bukharin was a pioneer and founder member of Soviet Communism. An Old Bolshevik and a close comrade of Lenin, he was shot by Stalin, but eventually reinstated, posthumously, under Gorbachev. This collection of essays by an international range of scholars is the first systematic study of his ideas. The book analyses three major areas of his thought: economics and the peasantry, politics and international relations, and culture and science, and examines his influence both on his contemporaries and on subsequent thinkers. Anthony Kemp-Welch's extensive introduction establishes the context for this discussion, and he also provides a historical evaluation of Bukharin's role in relation to the emergence of Stalinism, the phenomenon that finally removed him from the political stage. Bukharin's intellectual legacy is only now beginning to be appreciated fully and this book will be an important resource for anyone wanting a more thorough analysis of his intellectual contribution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198278667

OCLC:

24953378