# Bukharin — The Bolshevik Myth character guide

> Bukharin in The Bolshevik Myth by Alexander Berkman.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0005-iv-moscow

## Who they are

Bolshevik leader and theorist.

## In the story

### [Last Links in the Chain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/xxxix-last-links-in-the-chain)

Bukharin denounces the hunger-striking Anarchists as counterrevolutionists at the Trade Union Congress.

### [II: The Communist Dictatorship and the Russian Revolution](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/ii-the-communist-dictatorship-and-the-russian-revolution)

Bukharin is quoted as a foremost Communist theoretician justifying 'proletarian compulsion' including execution and forced labor as a method to rework humanity.

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