Full Name: Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin
Nickname: Nikolai Bukharin
Called By: Golden Boy of the revolution

Father: Liubov Ivanovna Bukharin
Mother: Ivan Gavrilovich
Wife: Nadezhda Mikhailovna Lukina
Wife: Anna Larina
Children: Svetlana, Yuri Larin

Date of Birth: 9 October 1888
Birth Place: Moscow, Russian Empire
Date of Death: 15 March 1938 (aged 49)
Death PLace: Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Cause of Death: Execution

Gender: Male
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Nationality: Russian
Political Party: Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Education: Moscow State University

Known For: Editor of Pravda, Izvestia Author of The ABC of Communism, The Politics and Economics of the Transition Period, Imperialism and World Economy, Principal framer of the Soviet Constitution of 1936.

Books: Political Economy of the Leisure Class (1912-1913), World Economy and Imperialism (1915), Theory of Historical Materialism (1921), Economic Theory of the Leisure Class (1927), How It All Began, The Prison Novel (1999).

The Soviet politician and writer Nikolai Bukharin was born in Moscow on 27th September 1888. He led theorists of the Communist movement during the Revolutionary period in Russia and throughout the 1920s. Nikolai Bukharin Called By, "Golden Boy of the revolution". He died on 15 March 1938 at the age of 49 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union cause of execution.

Childhood & Early Life: Nikolai Bukharin was born in Moscow, Russian Empire. His father Liubov Ivanovna Bukharin and mother Ivan Gavrilovich were primary school teachers and they helped him to get a good education. Bukharin's political life began at the age of sixteen with his lifelong friend Ilya Ehrenburg when he participated in student activities at Moscow University related to the Russian Revolution of 1905. In 1906 he joined the Leninist faction of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' party, then known as the Bolsheviks. He worked for the party as a successful propagandist and organizer. He convened the 1907 national youth conference in Moscow, which was later considered the founder of the Komsomol. By 1908 he was a member of the Moscow Party Committee. The following year he was arrested while at a committee meeting. He was released but re-arrested several times and in 1910 decided to go into exile.

In 1911 he emigrated to Germany and remained abroad, either in Europe or the United States, until the Revolution began in 1917. These six years of emigration strengthened Bukharin's internationalism; he matured as a Marxist theorist and writer and became known as a radical voice in the Bolshevik party. After a year in Germany, he went to Krakow in 1912 to meet Vladimir Lenin, who invited him to write for the party's publications. Bukharin settled in Vienna, where he studied and drafted several theoretical works. Expelled to Switzerland at the beginning of World War I, he supported Lenin's radical antiwar platform, continuing his activities in Scandinavia and then New York City.

Later Life: When revolution broke out in Russia in early 1917, Bukharin hastened home. Arriving in May, he immediately took a leading role in the Moscow Bolshevik organization, which was dominated by young radicals. His militant stance brought him close to Lenin. In the face of Lenin's proposal to end World War, I for Russia by a separate peace with Germany, Bukharin, Trotsky, Dzerzhinsky, and others argued strongly for changing the world war into a European revolutionary war. But by the time of the Tenth Party Congress (1921), Bukharin's views had begun to undergo extensive change. He supported Lenin's proposal to consolidate the victories of the party inside Russia by means of the New Economic Policy. During this period and the remainder of the 1920s, Bukharin held numerous high party and government posts, including the editorship of Pravda (1918-1929), the journal Bolshevik (1924-1929), and the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. In 1919, when a five-man Politburo was formally established, Bukharin became one of three candidate members and also became deputy chairman of the newly established Comintern. Serving in various capacities during the civil war, Bukharin also published extensively: including Imperialism and World Economy (1918), the popularizing and militant ABC of Communism (1920, with Yevgeny Preobrazhensky sky); Economics of the Transition Period (1920), which celebrated the stabilization of the economy under War Communism but also began to explore how to build a socialist society after the revolution; and Historical Materialism (1921), a major analysis of Marxism in the twentieth century.

When Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev became the dominant figures in the Soviet government. Bukharin was now seen as the leader of the right-wing party. He now rejected the idea of the world revolution and argued that the party's main priority should be to defend the communist system that had been developed in the Soviet Union. In 1925 Joseph Stalin switched his support from Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev to Bukharin and now began advocating the economic policies of Bukharin, Mikhail Tomsky and Alexei Rykov. Ultimately, however, Bukharin himself fell victim to Stalin's tactics when he was condemned as a leader of the so-called Right Deviation (1928-1929). As a result, Bukharin was removed from his high positions by mid-1929, though he continued to be a potential threat to Stalin. By 1934 Bukharin had regained a measure of his former power. Bukharin was arrested in February 1937. In March 1938, along with the Right Opposition, he was tried for treason and counterrevolution in the last great show trial, the Trial of the Twenty-One, where he was the star defendant. Bukharin confessed to the charges against him, probably to save his young wife Anna Larina and their son Yuri (born 1934), and he was executed immediately.

Death: Nikolai Bukharin, the "Golden Boy of the revolution" was condemned to death and was executed on 15 March 1938 at the aged 49 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.