Buharin's Economical and Political Stand-Points

Buharin's Struggle with Stalin

Abstract

The author analyses Buharin's economical and political stand-points upon development of the Soviet Russia in the twenties. Buharin was a follower of Lenin's NEP; he strived for mutual intertwining of the statal, co-operative and private economic forms. It is an indisputable historical fact Buharin was among those who — in struggle with the left and United opposition — argumentedly rejected with his theoretic-economic articles the theses of the left opposition which strived for direct building of the industry on basis of a detailed state plan and financing from the state budget. In the years 1928/29 there was a turning-point in the Soviet policy. A long process of deformating the performing of governing, which grew out of the base of the proletarian society, began. Buharin's group, marked by Stalin as the right opposition, presented one last attempt to preserve in VKP(b) the collective management and to obstruct Stalin's dictatorship. Buharin's defeat presented an introduction into the political »revolution from the top«, and Into the historical period of Stalinism.