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From New World Encyclopedia
Featured Article: Nikolai Bukharin
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Буха́рин) (October 9 [O.S. September 27,] 1888 – March 15, 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, Marxist philosopher and economist and prolific author on revolutionary theory. As a young man, he spent six years in exile working closely with fellow exiles Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. After the revolution of February 1917, he returned to Moscow, where his Bolshevik credentials earned him a high rank in the party. After the October Revolution he became editor of their newspaper, Pravda. When the Great Purges began in 1936, some of Bukharin's letters, conversations, and tapped phone-calls indicated disloyalty to Stalin. He was arrested and charged with conspiring to overthrow the Soviet state. After a show trial that alienated many Western communist sympathizers, he was executed in March 1938.
