Nikolai Bukharin

The United States of America is still one of the most heavily immigrated to countries in the world and obtaining the “American Dream” is a widely held ideal for many. Both Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake and the film Brooklyn, directed by John Crowley, delve into the lives of newcomers to America. The Namesake and Brooklyn both deal with issues regarding identity and how it relates to family and culture, and assimilation, or lack thereof, to a new society. While these themes are similar, how…

The Nose The Nose features a twisted ending which is hard to conclude on what exactly happened. The narrator here tries to convince us that social rank plays an important part in determining a person’s life. The events of the story indicate that appearance was important for a man with a high rank. The value of fellow government official’s opinions is very high as Kovalyov says, “If the major doesn’t split his sides when he sees me, then everything is in the right place. (Gogol, 21).” At this…

When a name is chosen for you, the name becomes your personality, appearance and you. In the book The Namesake, Lahiri compares Gogol/Nikhil's struggle with the struggle of growing up in two different cultures. America is a free country, which allows Gogol to change his name and be anything he wants to be. On the other hand, the culture of his parents and them giving him that name, is anything but free. The name they chose was chosen by respect and honor towards their homeland. The author…

He was inspired to write this melody from a short story by Nikolai Gogol called St. John's Eve. The plot of the story refers to the witches' sabbath, which occurs on a bald mountaintop each year near the summer solstice. This was a hard piece for Mussorgsky to write because he often had ideas that he couldn't get…

Orin Richardson: Composer Biography Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was born into a Russian noble family with an extensive history of military and government service on the 18th of March, 1844 in the small village of Tikhvin. Even though both of his parents were illegitimate children, his father, Andrei Petrovich Rimsky-Korsakov, used his connection with a Russian general to regain his family’s noble status, and later worked in the Interior Ministry of the Russian Empire. His older brother, Voin…

seven members of the Politburo, the other members included Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky, Alexei Rykov, Mikhail Tomsky, and Nikolai Bukharin. Of the seven members, only five had the potential to become a leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Stalin, Trotsky, Bukharin, Zinoviev, and Kamenev. By late 1924 the only competitors with a chance was Stalin and Trotsky, Bukharin, Zinoviev, and Kamenev had been pushed to the side. Trotsky wanted a worldwide communist revolution. Stalin had…

took place, marked by three significant show trials targeting high-ranking Soviet officials: the 1936 trial against Lev Kamenev and Grigorii Zinoviev, among others; the 1937 trial against Iurrii Piatakov with others; and the 1938 trial against Nikolai Bukharin and Aleksei Rykov. All of these men were accused of Trotskyism as well as other terrorist activity.…

a scapegoat. Napoleon and his dogs kill animals he thinks are in cahoots with Snowball, the first to be executed are four pigs who disagreed with Napoleon’s actions, their execution symbolized the Great Purge of Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Nikolai Bukharin, and Alexei Rykov. Beasts of England is replace with an anthem praising Napoleon. Napoleon himself appears to be adopting the lifestyle of a man. One of the neighboring farmers, Mr. Frederick, attacks the farm, using blasting powder to…

to keep it as a secret. They were successful in damaging Trotsky’s military reputation during the Russian Civil War. However, their alliance broke between the three in 1925 and Stalin allied with Communist Party theoretician and Pravda editor Nikolai Bukharin and Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Rykov while the other two allied with Trotsky. Trotsky, Zinoviev, and Kamenev made a new organization called the United Opposition and they had fought against Stalin. However, they were only…

In an exceptionally ambitious biography—the first volume of a projected three takes us from Stalin’s birth, in 1878, up to 1928 in just under 1,000 pages—Stephen Kotkin, a history professor at Princeton, sets out to synthesize the work of these and hundreds of other scholars. Stephen Kotkin has a goal, to remove the fog of mystery and the mythology out of Soviet history forever. His goal in Stalin is to sweep the cobwebs and the mythology out of Soviet historiography forever. He dismisses the…