Nikolaj Ivanovič Bucharin

Born

1888-10-09

Died

1938-03-15

Birthplace

Moscow, USSR

Biography

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and Marxist theorist. A prominent Bolshevik described by Vladimir Lenin as a "most valuable and major theorist" of the Communist Party, Bukharin was active in the Soviet leadership from 1917 to his purge in the 1930s.