Pyotr Pospelov
Politician
1898 – 1979
Who was Pyotr Pospelov?
Pyotr Nikolayevich Pospelov was a high-ranked functionary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, propagandist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, chief editor of Pravda newspaper, director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism. He was known as a staunch Stalinist who quickly became the supporter of Nikita Khrushchev.
He graduated from the Economics Department of the Institute of Red Professors in 1930. He was one of the principal authors of the The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Short Course, which served as a basic text on party history in the Stalinist period.
He is also known as the head of the "Pospelov commission" on the investigation of the mass repressions in the Soviet Union, whose findings had laid the basis and the contents of Nikita Khrushchev's "secret speech" On the Personality Cult and its Consequences
In a 1969 article in the Kommunist, Pospelov praised Stalin as bulwark of party unity in the face of the "anti-Leninist" challenge of Trotskyism, writing that
Pospelov was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
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- Born
- Jun 20, 1898
Konakovo - Nationality
- Russia
- Education
- Institute of Red Professors
- Died
- Apr 22, 1979
Moscow
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on July 23, 2013
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