Nikolai Bukharin
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Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and Marxist theorist. A prominent Bolshevik described by Vladimir Lenin as a "most valuable and major theorist" of the Commun
Bukharin c. 1920s
Bukharin's Okhrana mugshot c. 1909–1911
Delegates to the 2nd World Congress of the Comintern in Moscow, 1920. Left to right: Giacinto Serrati, Leon Trotsky, Alfred Rosmer, Paul Levi, Grigory Zinoviev, Nikolai Bukharin, Mikhail Kalinin, Karl Radek.
Kliment Voroshilov, Semyon Budyonny, Mikhail Frunze and Nikolai Bukharin in Novomoskovsk 1921 with the 1st Cavalry Army (Konarmia)
Kommunarka shooting ground
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The Kommunarka shooting site, often mistakenly called Kommunarka firing range —the former dacha of secret police chief Genrikh Yagoda—was used as an execution site and mass grave from 1937 to 1941. Ex
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…you for mercy, even if he may be guilty of something", to which Stalin noted: "We must not respond." Bukharin was executed on 15 March 1938 at the Kommunarka shooting ground, but the announcement of his death was overshadowed by the Nazi Anschluss of Austria. According to Zhores and Roy Medvedev in The Unknown Stalin (2006…
Entrance gate into the Kommunarka shooting ground in 2012
Grave markers for some of the victims at Kommunarka
Photos of some of the victims