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| | Philosophical Arabesques by Nikolai Bukharin | Excerpt |
 | | Even while preoccupied with urgent affairs of state, they polemicised passionately on questions of epistemology, ontology, ethics and aesthetics. |
 | | Nevertheless, all through the terror, right to the very end, he wrote Dear Koba letters, refuting the charges against him, protesting his innocence, believing, not believing, that, if only Stalin could see what the NKVD was doing, where things were going wrong, that he would put it right. |
 | | There were 3 spectacular show trials in which whole original nucleus of the party, with the exception of Lenin and Stalin, were represented as involved in a fantastic conspiracy to assassinate party leaders, to sabotage industry, to foment peasant uprisings, to spy for foreign powers, to overthrow socialism and to restore capitalism. |
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