Nikolai Mikhailovich Lukin (Russian: Николай Михайлович Лукин; July 20, 1885 – July 19, 1940) was a Soviet Marxist historian and publicist. He was a leader among Soviet historians in the 1930s, after the death of Mikhail Pokrovsky. He was a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks) from 1904. He was appointed an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union on February 13, 1929, for the Department of Humanities (History), expelled on September 5, 1938, and restored on April 26, 1957. Vavilov Institute of the History of Natural Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Source: Wikipedia (en)