Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin

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A Russian Bolshevik leader who supported combining farms and was executed in 1938

proper noun

: Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin

Stalin ordered the execution of Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin during the Great Purge in 1938.

Examples

Did you know that Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin advocated for gradual collectivization?
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin was a key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution.
As a leading Bolshevik, Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin played a key role in the early Soviet government.
Historians often debate whether Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin could have shaped Soviet policies differently if he had survived.
As a leading Bolshevik, Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin played a key role in the early Soviet government.
Stalin ordered the execution of Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin during the Great Purge in 1938.
Historians often debate whether Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin could have shaped Soviet policies differently if he had survived.

Surface Forms

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin main

Morphology

Nikolai + Ivanovich + Bukharin

This is a full personal name (proper noun) whose meaning is referential rather than compositional: knowing the parts 'Nikolai', 'Ivanovich', and 'Bukharin' only signals a Russian-style given name + patronymic + surname, but does not convey the biographical sense 'prominent Bolshevik leader'. Because the encyclopedic/role information cannot be derived from the constituent name-words, the expression is not transparent to a B1 learner.

Etymology

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin was a leading Soviet politician who argued for slower, careful change in farming and the economy in the 1920s. He was later arrested and executed during Stalin's purges, so his name often brings to mind both 'moderate ideas' and the danger of 'political repression'.