On this day, 88 years ago, on January 23, 1937 (December 11, 1936 in the lunar calendar), 17 Communist Party leaders including Bukharin in the Soviet Union were sentenced to death. In 1927, Bukharin was elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee at the 15th Congress of the United Communist Party of China (Bolshevik), one of the early leaders of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Economist. 1906 Joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. He was elected as a member of the Party Central Committee after the February Revolution in Russia. After the October Revolution, he served as editor-in-chief of Pravda, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, member of the Executive Committee of the Third International and member of the Presidium. In 1928, he was criticized for holding different views on national industrialization and agricultural collectivization. The following year, he was dismissed as a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (Bolshevik) and editor-in-chief of Pravda. In 1931, he served as a member of the Supreme National Economic Council. In 1934, he served as editor-in-chief of Izvestia. He was expelled from the party in 1937. He was later executed for "convicting the country." His reputation was restored in 1988. He is the author of "World Economy and Imperialism","Economy in Transition","ABC of Communism", etc. With riders in the Caucasus