ABSTRACT
Born: October 9, 1888; Moscow, Russia Died: March 15, 1938; Moscow, U.S.S.R. Areas of Achievement: Government and politics Contribution: Bukharin was a leader of the Bolshe-
vik Revolution of 1917 and the foremost theoretician of the Soviet Communist Party during its early formative years. In 1924, after the death of the Party's founder, Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Bukharin became his heir and successor until he was forced from power by Joseph Stalin in 1928.
