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Nikolaj Ivanovič Bucharin

Born 9 October 1888 · Moscow, USSR · Died 15 March 1938 at 49

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.