The Trial of the 21 & Nikolai Bukharin #darkhistory #USSR #history #lenin #stalin

Once called “the darling of the Party” by Lenin himself, Nikolai Bukharin was a brilliant Marxist—and a dead man walking. In Stalin’s infamous 1938 Show Trial of the 21, Bukharin was accused of espionage, conspiracy, and betrayal. 

We take you through the life and times of Bukharin, up to his show trial where Bukharin delivered a confession. This is the fall of a revolutionary swallowed by the machine he helped create.

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=bukharin&title=Special:MediaSearch&type=image

Resources (including last speech transcript): https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1938/trial/index.htm