The Ideas of Nikolai Bukharin

by Kemp-Welch, A.

• ISBN13: 9780198278665
• ISBN10: 0198278667
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-08-20
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

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 studyof 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 forthis 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. Contributors: Anna di Biagio, John Biggart, V. P. Danilov, Peter Ferdinand, Neil Harding, A. Kemp-Welch, Robert Lewis, and Alec Nove.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Introduction	p. 1
Economics and the Peasantry
Bukharin as an Economist	p. 25
Bukharin and the New Economic Policy	p. 40
Bukharin and the Countryside	p. 69
Politics and International Relations
Bukharin and the State	p. 85
Bukharin's International Alternative	p. 113
Culture and Science
Bukharin's Theory of Cultural Revolution	p. 131
Bukharin and Science Policy	p. 159
Bukharin and Beyond	p. 176
Select Bibliography	p. 198
Index	p. 207
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