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Nikolai Bukharin

Bukharin wrote important texts on imperialism, world economy, transition economics, and systematized historical materialism.

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Years1888-1938Life dates

Stages03 Political Economy: Understanding the Motion of Capital; 05 Imperialism, Colonial Systems, and World Revolution; 08 Internationalist Collaboration and Contemporary TasksSuggested stages

Works3Catalog entries

Rightspublic-domainUnder a conservative global life-plus-70 screen, the author's originals can be treated as public-domain candidates; translations, collected editions, annotations, and modern edited versions still need separate review.

Theoretical Contribution

He helped place the capitalist world system and transition economics within Marxist debate.

Keywords

world economyimperialismtransition periodhistorical materialism

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Controversies and Reading Notes

Note both the strengths of systematization and risks of simplification, as well as political debate contexts.