Nikolai Bukharin
(27 September 1888 ----> 15 March 1938)
| Bukharin was born in Moscow in 1888. His parents were both schoolteachers. His political life commenced at 16. He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, becoming a member of he Bolsheviks. In 1911, he was exiled to Omega, but soon escaped to Hanover. In 1912, he visited Vladimir Lenin in Krakow. He wrote several books during this exile period. He developed an interest in Austrian Marxism. In 1916, he went to New York City to edit the newspaper Novy Mir. Bukharin returned to Russia in 1917 and was elected to the Central Bolshevik Committee. During the October Revolution 1917, he became chief editor of the Bolshevik official party newspaper Pravda. He became leader of the Left Communists to oppose Lenin's decision to sign Brest-Litovsk. He returned to the Bolshevik Party in 1919, becoming an influential author of notable books (including "The ABC of Communism" (1919), "Economics of the Transitional Period" (1920) and "Historical Materialism"(1921). In 1924, Bukharin joined the Politburo. Bukharin supported the NEP (New Economics Policy) which made him largely unpopular, even among his own party. He lost editorship of Pravda in 1929 and was expelled from the Politburo later in the same year. He was arrested in 1937 and was executed on March 15th 1938. |
