Nikolai Bukharin: Army

Nikolai Bukharin was Soviet politician. Explore interesting quotes on army.

Nikolai Bukharin: 36 quotes0 likes

“The Red Army has been created by the workers for the struggle with the White Army of capital. The Red Army issued out the civil war; it will disappear when a complete victory has been gained in the war, when class has been abolished when the dictatorship of the proletariat has lapsed.”

Nikolai Bukharin

Source: ABC's of Communism, Ch.8, pp. 268

“In all grades of army life, the proletariat is in control through the instrumentality of the communist commissars, who both at the front and at the rear are mainly drawn from among the workers.”

Nikolai Bukharin

ABC's of Communism

“The political commissars are the representatives of the class will of the proletariat in the army; they are mandated by the party and the military centres.”

Nikolai Bukharin

66.
ABC's of Communism

“The proletarian army must be exclusively composed of persons belonging to the working class, of persons who do not expoloit labour and who are directly interested in the victory of the workers' revolution.”

Nikolai Bukharin

62. The Need For The Red Army; It's Class Composition
ABC's of Communism