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Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, 1888-1938.

Russian Marxian economist, regarded as the foremost theoretician of the Russian Bolsheviks in their early years.

Intellectually, Bukharin is usually connected with the Austro-Marxians.  Bukharin's 1917 book contained an attack on the Neoclassical Austrian School, his 1918 piece in imperialism was written before Lenin's famous tome.  Bukharin was a promoter of the "sociological" approach to Marxian theory championed by the Austro-Marxians, and his defense of revisionism led to his 1924 critique of Rosa Luxemburg.   Politically, he was the main promoter of the "New Economic Plan" in Russia, which emphasized small-scale peasant farming and the use of market incentives.  He was purged by Stalin in the famous trials of 1938, and subsequently shot. 

 

  

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Major Works of Nikolai Bukharin

  • Toward a Theory of the Imperialist State, 1915 [mia]
  • Economic Theory of the Leisure Class, 1917. [Eng 1927 trans., mia]
  • "The Russian Revolution and Its Significance", 1917 [mia]
  • Imperialism and World Economy, 1918 [mia] [Eng trans. 1929]
  • Programme of the World Revolution, 1918, [Eng. trans 1920 bk, mia]
  • The ABC of Communism, with Preobrazhensky, 1919. [Eng. trans. 1921, v.1, v.2; mia]
  • Economics of the Transition Period, 1920.
  • Historical Materialism: A system of sociology. 1921. [mia]
  • 'Der Imperialismus und die Akkumulation des Kapitals', 1924 [Eng. trans. Imperialism and the Accumulation of Capital, mia].
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