Nikolaj Ivanovič Bucharin

Born 9 October 1888 in Moscow, USSR

Died 15 March 1938 (aged 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.