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Nikolai Bukharin

1888 - 1938

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Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (; 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. 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 escaped abroad, where he met Lenin and Leon Trotsky and built his reputation with works such as Imperialism and World Economy (1915). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Bukharin is the 1,077th most popular politician (down from 813th in 2019), the 103rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 95th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Russian Politician.

Nikolai Bukharin was a Russian revolutionary and Bolshevik, as well as a Soviet politician. He was a member of the Politburo, the Central Committee, and the Orgburo. He was also editor-in-chief of Pravda. He was executed during the Great Purge.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nikolai Bukharin ranks 1,077 out of 19,576Before him are Basil I, Ḫattušili III, Anne of Brittany, Attalus I, Zachary Taylor, and Amanullah Khan. After him are Hasan Akhund, Shoshenq I, Irma Grese, Baldwin I of Jerusalem, Peter I of Serbia, and Childeric III.

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Among people born in 1888, Nikolai Bukharin ranks 13Before him are T. E. Lawrence, Dale Carnegie, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, José Raúl Capablanca, Roland Garros, and Frans Eemil Sillanpää. After him are Nestor Makhno, John Logie Baird, Giorgio de Chirico, Abul Kalam Azad, Carl Schmitt, and C. V. Raman. Among people deceased in 1938, Nikolai Bukharin ranks 12Before him are Karel Čapek, Konstantin Stanislavski, Marie of Romania, Georges Méliès, Mary Mallon, and Faustina Kowalska. After him are Kanō Jigorō, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Béla Kun, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Karl Kautsky, and Alexei Rykov.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Bukharin ranks 103 out of 3,761Before him are Ivan III of Russia (1440), Michael of Russia (1596), Alexander Suvorov (1730), Mikhail Lomonosov (1711), Lev Kamenev (1883), and Alexander Alekhine (1892). After him are Ilya Prigogine (1917), Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850), Nikolai Yezhov (1895), Mikhail Bakhtin (1895), Mikhail Botvinnik (1911), and Arnold Sommerfeld (1868).

Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Nikolai Bukharin ranks 38Before him are Martti Ahtisaari (1937), Sergey Lavrov (1950), Alexis of Russia (1629), Ivan III of Russia (1440), Michael of Russia (1596), and Lev Kamenev (1883). After him are Nikolai Yezhov (1895), Tokhtamysh (1342), Grigory Potemkin (1739), Ivan VI of Russia (1740), Feodor III of Russia (1661), and Dzhokhar Dudayev (1944).