Bukharinism (Russian: Бухаринизм, romanized: Bukharinizm) is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Russian revolutionary and intellectual Nikolai Bukharin. Bukharinism is a form of market socialism and Bukharin is sometimes known as the "father of market socialism". Bukharin held that the markets and central planning must complement each other. For a brief period the "Official Bolshevism" was Bukharinist. A similar system was present in Mao Zedong's China but ended with the start of the Great Leap Forward in 1958. Bukharinism served as one of the inspirations behind China's current socialist market economy.