Nikolai Bukharin Writers' Archive

“Bukharin is not only a most valuable and major theorist of the Party; he is also rightly considered the favourite of the whole Party, but his theoretical views can be classified as fully Marxist only with great reserve, for there is something scholastic about him (he has never made a study of the dialectics, and, I think, never fully understood it).” V.I. Lenin 1922.

Works:

1915: Toward a Theory of the Imperialist State

1917: Imperialism and World Economy
1917: The Russian Revolution and Its Significance

1918: Anarchy and Scientific Communism
1918: Programme of the World Revolution

1919: Church and School in the Soviet Republic
1919: The Red Army and the Counter Revolution
1919: Soviets or Parliament

1920: The ABC of Communism with Evgenii Preobrazhensky [ PDF ]
1920: On Parliamentarism
1920: The Secret of the League (part I)
1920: The Secret of the League (part II)
1920: The Organisation of the Army and the Structure of Society
1920: Common Work for the Common Pot

1921: The Era of Great Works
1921: Speech in Discussion of Tactics and Strategy July 1, 1921
1921: Speech in Discussion of Policies of the Communist Party of Russia July 5. 1021
1921: The New Economic Policy Of Soviet Russia
1921: Historical Materialism—a System of Sociology

1922: Economic Organization in Soviet Russia
1922: The Economic Structure of Soviet Russia
1922: The Political Prisoners
1922: To Arthur Henderson and James Ramsay MacDonald! (with L.-O. Frossard, K. Radek & C. Zetkin)
1922: Who Are the Traitors?
1922: The Enlarged Executive Committee on the Norwegian Party (with G. Zinoviev, B. Smeral & O. Kuusinen)
1922: Program of the Communist International (Draft)

The following 3 documents from the Fourth Congress of the Comintern were translated by John Riddell

1922: Speech in Discussion of Executive Committee Report – Fourth Congress of the Communist International, November 11
1922: Alternative translation of above speech in International Press Correspondence
1922: Report on the Programme of the International and Communist Parties – Fourth Congress of the Communist International, November 18
1922: Alternative translation of above speech in International Press Correspondence
1922: Report from Norwegian Commission – Fourth Congress of the Communist International, December 5

1923: The International Policy of the Proletarian State (letter to Souvarine)
1923: The Occupation of the Ruhr and Soviet Russia
1923: A letter from Bukharin and Zinoviev to Jousselin, judge of the French Court of Inquiry (letter, with Zinoviev)
1923: A Great Marxian Party (Alternative version)
1923: To Comrades Cachin, Monmousseou, Treint, Semard, Jacob et al. (International Press Correspondence, on behalf of the ECCI, with Trotzky, Radek, Gramsci et al.)
1923: The International of General, Equal and Open Abjectness!
1923: Speech at Session of Enlarged Executive of C.I.
1923: Report on the Limits of Centralism in the Comintern
1923: Report on the Program Question
1923: Concluding Speech
1923: The Peasantry and the Working Class in the Next Historical Period
1923: The Twelfth Congress of the Russian Communist Party

1924: Imperialism and the Accumulation of Capital
1924: The Theory of Permanent Revolution

1926: The Tasks of the Russian Communist Party
1926: Speech at the Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the ECCI

1927: Economic Theory of the Leisure Class
1927: The World Revolution and the U.S.S.R.
1927: The International Position and the Tasks of the Communist International

1928: New Forms of the World Crisis
1930: Finance Capital in Papal Robes. A Challenge!

1931: Theory and Practice from the Standpoint of Dialectical Materialism

1933: Marx’s Teaching and its Historical Importance

1934: Poetry, Poetics and the Problems of Poetry in the U.S.S.R.
1934: Crisis of Capitalist Culture

1938: The Case of Bukharin, from the Moscow Trials