Boris Ponomarev

Politician

1905 – 1995

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Who was Boris Ponomarev?

Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev was a Soviet politician, ideologist and historian, and a member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His patron in his rise to the politburo was Mikhail Suslov.

His name would more accurately be transliterated as «Ponomaryov», though the form «Ponomarev» has become more frequent.

From 1955 to 1986, he was chief of the International Department of the CPSU Central Committee - and effectively in control of policy in the World Communist Movement. He occupied an office within Central Committee headquarters right up until the 1991 August Coup, which he is said to have supported.

He wrote the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1960.

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Born
Jan 17, 1905
Shakhovskoye, Ulyanovsk Oblast
Also known as
  • Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev
  • Boris Ponomaryov
  • B. N. Ponomarev
Religion
  • Atheism
Nationality
  • Russia
Profession
Education
  • Moscow State University
  • Institute of Red Professors
Lived in
  • Kutuzovsky Prospekt
Died
Dec 21, 1995
Moscow
Resting place
Kuntsevo Cemetery

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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