Editing Right Opposition (section)

==Fate of the Russian Right Opposition==
Stalin and his "centre" faction were allied with Bukharin and the Right Opposition from late 1924, with Bukharin elaborating Stalin's theory of [[socialism in one country]]. Together, they expelled Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev, and the [[United Opposition (Soviet Union)|United Opposition]] from the [[All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|Communist Party]] in December 1927. However, once Trotsky was out of the way and the Left Opposition had been illegalized, Stalin soon became alarmed at the danger posed to the Soviet state by the rising power of the capitalistic kulaks and NEPmen, who had become emboldened by the Left Opposition's illegalization. Sensing this danger, Stalin then turned on his Right Opposition allies. Bukharin and the Right Opposition were, in their turn, sidelined and removed from important positions within the Communist Party and the Soviet government from 1928 to 1930, with Stalin ending the NEP and beginning the first [[Five-year plans for the national economy of the Soviet Union|five-year plan]].

One of the last attempts of the Rightists to resist Stalin was the [[Ryutin affair]] in 1932, where a manifesto against the soviet policy of collectivization and Stalin was circulated. It openly called for "The Liquidation of the dictatorship of Stalin and his clique".<ref>{{cite book |last=Ryutin |first=Martemyan Nikitich |author-link=Martemyan Ryutin |translator-last=Ghosh |translator-first=Pranab |title=The Ryutin Platform: Stalin and the Crisis of Proletarian Dictatorship : Platform of the "Union of Marxists-Leninists" |date=2010 |publisher=Seribaan |isbn=978-81-87492-28-3 |language=en}}</ref>{{page needed|date=April 2024}} Later, some rightists joined a [[Bloc of Soviet Oppositions|secret bloc]] with [[Leon Trotsky]], [[Grigory Zinoviev]], and [[Lev Kamenev]] in order to oppose Stalin. Historian Pierre Broué stated that it dissolved in early 1933.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pierre Broué: The "Bloc" of the Oppositions against Stalin (January 1980) |url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/broue/1980/01/bloc.html |access-date=2020-08-07 |website=www.marxists.org}}</ref>

[[File:Nikolai Bukharin.jpeg|thumb|A young Nikolai Bukharin, whose ideas formed the ideological framework of the Opposition.]]

Bukharin was isolated from his allies abroad, and, in the face of increasing Stalinist repression, was unable to mount a sustained struggle against Stalin. Unlike Trotsky, who built an anti-Stalinist movement, Bukharin and his allies capitulated to Stalin and admitted their "ideological errors". They were temporarily rehabilitated, though they were allowed only minor posts and did not return to their former prominence. Bukharin and his allies were later executed during the [[Great Purge]] trials.{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}