Boris Ponomarev

Soviet politician and historian (1905-1995)

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Борис Пономарёв

Ponomarev in 1963

Head of the International Department of the Central CommitteeIn office
21 February 1957 – 25 February 1986Preceded byPost established
(himself as Department for Relations with Foreign Communist Parties head)Succeeded byAnatoly DobryninHead of the Department for Relations with Foreign Communist Parties of the Central CommitteeIn office
9 December 1955 – 21 February 1957Preceded byMikhail SuslovSucceeded byPost abolished
(himself as International Department head and Yuri Andropov as Department for Relations with the Communist and Workers' Parties of the Socialist Countries head)Candidate member of the 24th, 25th, 26th PolitburoIn office
19 May 1972 – 25 February 1986Member of the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th SecretariatIn office
31 October 1961 – 25 February 1985 Personal detailsBorn(1905-01-17)17 January 1905
Zaraysk, Ryazan Governorate, Russian EmpireDied21 December 1995(1995-12-21) (aged 90)
Moscow, RussiaCitizenshipSovietNationalityRussianPolitical partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1919–1991)ResidenceKutuzovsky ProspektProfessionPolitician, historian

Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev (Russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Пономарёв; 17 January 1905 – 21 December 1995) was a Soviet politician, ideologist, historian and 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.

Career

From 1955 to 1986, Ponomarev was chief of the International Department of the CPSU Central Committee. He occupied an office within Central Committee headquarters until the 1991 August coup, which he is said to have supported.

In 1962, Ponomarev wrote an updated state history of the CPSU to replace Stalin's 1938 History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) as part of the Khrushchev Thaw.^[1]

His December 1962 speech at the All-Union Conference of Historians was a major turning point in the development of Soviet historiography.^[2]

Publications

Plot against the Soviet Union and world peace (1938)
Soviet Foreign Policy Vol. 1 1917 - 1945, edited with Anatoly Gromyko, Progress Publishers, 1980
History of Soviet Foreign Policy 1945-1970, edited with Anatoly Gromyko, Progress Publishers, 1974

References

^ Banerji, Arup (2008). Writing History in the Soviet Union: Making the Past Work. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9788187358374. p. 148.
^ Ponomarev, Boris (Summer 1963). "All-Union Conference of Historians". Soviet Studies in History. 1.

External links

Media related to Boris Ponomarev at Wikimedia Commons
Russian Academy of Sciences: Profile

26th Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1981–1986)

Full members

Candidate members

v t e 25th Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1976–1981)
Full members	Yuri Andropov Leonid Brezhnev Andrei Grechko Viktor Grishin Andrei Gromyko Andrei Kirilenko Alexei Kosygin Fyodor Kulakov Dinmukhamed Kunaev Kirill Mazurov Arvīds Pelše Nikolai Podgorny Grigory Romanov Mikhail Suslov Dmitry Ustinov Volodymyr Shcherbytsky Konstantin Chernenko Nikolai Tikhonov Mikhail Gorbachev
Candidate members	Heydar Aliyev Pyotr Demichev Pyotr Masherov Boris Ponomarev Sharof Rashidov Mikhail Solomentsev Vasili Kuznetsov Konstantin Chernenko Nikolai Tikhonov Eduard Shevardnadze Mikhail Gorbachev Tikhon Kiselyov

v t e 24th Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1971–1976)
Full members	Leonid Brezhnev Gennady Voronov Viktor Grishin Andrei Kirilenko Alexei Kosygin Fyodor Kulakov Dinmukhamed Kunaev Kirill Mazurov Arvīds Pelše Nikolai Podgorny Dmitry Polyansky Mikhail Suslov Alexander Shelepin Petro Shelest Volodymyr Shcherbytsky Yuri Andropov Andrei Grechko Andrei Gromyko
Candidate members	Yuri Andropov Pyotr Demichev Pyotr Masherov Vasil Mzhavanadze Sharof Rashidov Dmitry Ustinov Mikhail Solomentsev Boris Ponomarev Grigory Romanov

Era of Stagnation

Events (1964–1982)

Events (1982–1985)

Politburo members

Efremov

Kirilenko

Kuznetsov

Ponomarev

National economy

Reforms	OGAS 1965 1973 1979 Food Programme 1984
Five-year plans	8th plan 9th plan 10th plan 11th plan

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