One of the more fascinating figures in the Bolshevik revolution was Nikolai Bukharin, who was both a rival of Lenin and a partner. He was a late arrival on the scene and came out of a different part of the revolutionary Left. He was in the radical subculture based in Moscow, while Lenin was based in St. Petersburg, but largely in the international/ex-pat subculture until the revolution.
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