Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; Marxist theorist and economist; important leader of the Communist International. He was born on October 9, 1888, to a primary school teacher’s family in Moscow. He joined the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party in 1906. He joined the Moscow University in 1907. In 1908, he was elected as a member of the “Moscow Committee” of the party. From 1909 to 1910, he was arrested three times by the Tsar government, and exiled to Onega in 1911, from there he escaped to Western Europe. In 1912, he met Lenin in Krakow and assisted Lenin in editing the Pravda. In October 1916, he went to the United States to edit the Russian magazine New World (Novy Mir) in New York. After the February Revolution in 1917, Bukharin returned to Moscow and was elected as a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, a member of the Executive Committee of the Moscow Soviet and a member of the Moscow Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (Bolshevik). Later, he became editor-in-chief of the Pravda newspaper. From July to August of the same year, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee at the Sixth Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (Bolshevik). During the October Revolution, he was a core leader in the Moscow uprising…
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