On this day, 37 years ago, on February 5, 1988 (December 18, 1987, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union pacified Bukharin. Bukharin (1888-1938), one of the leaders of the early Russian revolution, was born into the family of a primary school teacher in Moscow and studied at Moscow University. He joined the Russian Social and People's Livelihood Labor Party in 1906. In 1908, he was elected as a member of the Moscow Party Committee. Persecution by the Shah government, he fled to Germany in 1911 and moved to Vienna the following year to write for Pravda and Enlightenment magazines to promote Marxism. In 1916, he edited the Russian newspaper New World in New York, USA. After returning to China after the Revolution in February 1917, he was elected as a member of the Party Central Committee and editor-in-chief of the Social Democrat newspaper and Spartak magazine. After the October Revolution, he served as editor-in-chief of Pravda for a long time. Because of his political opinions that disagreed with the authorities, such as his opposition to the signing of the Peace Treaty of Brest and his objections to national industrialization and agricultural collectivization, he was criticized within the party and expelled from the Politburo. In 1934, he became the editor-in-chief of Izvestia and concurrently served as a professor at Moscow University. In 1937, he was expelled from the party. On March 15, 1938, he was executed together with Li Kov and other 16 others. On February 5, 1988, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union announced that Bukharin had been rehabilitated, restored his reputation, and published his works during his lifetime.