Tragedy of Nikolay Ivanovitch Bucharin

Abstract

On the basis of the latest Moscow archival documents, the author reveals the dramatic background of Stalin's reckoning with the opposition in the party's leadership in the decade 1928-38, and the consequences of this for the Soviet society. The author focused his analysis to the methods of brutal mechanism of Stalin's so-called "revolution from above", whose result was installation of the Stalinist historical period. The author calls our attention to the fact that Iiquidation of Buharin"s opposition was the last attempt to kecp a collective leadership of the VKP(b) and prevent Stalin's personal dictatorship.