Nikolai Bukharin

Also known as Nikolay Ivanovich Bukharin, Nikolay Bukharin, Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin

Russian revolutionary and politician (1888–1938)

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Nikolai Bukharin was a leading Russian revolutionary and politician who played a significant role in the Soviet Union's early decades. He matters historically because he represented an important faction in Soviet politics during the 1920s, but was ultimately executed during Stalin's purges in 1938, making him a notable victim of Stalin's consolidation of power.

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Born: 9 October 1888
Died: 15 March 1938
Works: 306

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Notes of an economist
Historical materialism
Imperialismus und Weltwirtschaft
Der Imperialismus und die Akkumulation des Kapitals
Der alef-beys fun komunizm

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Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (/buːˈxɑːrɪn/; Russian: Николай Иванович Бухарин, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪdʑ bʊˈxarʲɪn]; 9 October [O.S. 27 September] 1888 – 15 March 1938) 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 government from 1917 until his purge in 1937. His political and economic system of thought is known as Bukharinism.

Bukharin joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1906, and studied economics at Moscow Imperial University. In 1910, he was arrested and internally exiled to Onega, but the following year he escaped abroad, where he met Lenin and Leon Trotsky and built his reputation with works such as Imperialism and World Economy (1915). After the February Revolution of 1917, Bukharin returned to Moscow and became a leading figure in the party, and after the October Revolution became editor of its newspaper, Pravda. He led the Left Communist faction in 1918, and during the civil war wrote The ABC of Communism (1920; with Yevgeni Preobrazhensky) and Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology (1921), among other works.