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| | The Case of Bukharin - from the Moscow Trials |
 | | The aim of Bukharin and his fellow-conspirators was to thwart the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, to overthrow the Soviet government, to arrest and assassinate V.I. Lenin, J.V. Stalin and J.M. Sverdlov and to form a new governments consisting of Bukharinites, Trotskyites and ‘Left’ Socialist-Revolutionaries. |
 | | In 1961, Bukharin’s wife, Anna Larina, was finally able to deliver Bukharin’s “last testament,” completely repudiating these “confessions,” to a Party control commission investigating the case for his rehabilitation. |
 | | Moreover, one reason for his preposterous confessions in the dock – incomplete, but sufficiently egregious confessions — was precisely this: he still hoped that the idea to which he had dedicated his life would triumph.” [Anna Larina, This I Cannot Forget, Pandora, 1994] |
| www.marxists.org /archive/bukharin/works/1938/trial (259 words) |
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