Click on title to link to the Nicolai Bukharin Internet Archive's copy of Bukharin's testimony from the Moscow Trials. This is not pretty reading but old Nikky held up better than many others. The Arthur Koestler novel, "Darkness At Noon" gives a 'fictional' treatment of this event. Bukharin had a lot to answer for, but he was a Bolshevik as were many 'legally' slaughtered in those days. Stalin has a lot to answer for in the court of revolutionary history.
Markin comment:
I want to spend more time on this revolutionary, his early leftism (in some senses ultra-leftism, especially the opposition on the Brest-Litovsk Treaty with the Germans taking Russia, bloody and broken, out of World War I , his subsequent rightist (right Communist, that is, which in agrarian Russia could only mean conciliating some segment of the vast peasantry) bloc with Stalin and his later, post-Moscow Trials, place in Soviet thinking in the 1980s when he, again, became a 'poster child' for accommodation to the forces of "market socialism". The fate of the Soviet Union,and defeat for the international working class in its struggle against capitalism, rather undercuts the 'virtues' of those theories. But, more later
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