Boris Ponomarev

Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev (Russian Борис Николаевич Пономарёв; cited as Ponomarev; * 4 Januarjul / January 17 1905greg in Zaraysk, .. † 21 December 1995, Moscow) was a Soviet historian and politician.

Biography

The historian

Ponomariov was from 1920 to 1923 in Zaraysk Komsomol in the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia. He studied from 1926 and became a historian. From 1932 to 1934 he worked as a director at a Historical Institute of the Party and from 1934 to 1937 as a professor in the Board of the Historical Institute of the Moscow Committee of the Party.

In the Comintern

Under the leadership of Georgi Dimitrov, he was in the Communist International ( Comintern ) as a political speaker, from 1936 until the dissolution of the Comintern in 1943, worked as head of a group, and at times also head of Herbert Wehner in his Moscow exile - time (then cover acquisition Kurt radio ). Wehner writes: He " ... distinguished himself personally by great reluctance pronounced modesty in appearance and the ability to listen to his counterpart from; he belonged to a particular type of young Russian officials, who had gone through the school of personal environment Stalin and the art of adaptation .... had acquired to perfection. " He was considered one of the ideologues of the CPSU. He was the first among the historians of the USSR in 1962 and editor of the party's official history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ).

In the Central Committee Secretariat

Ponomarev, the eternal secretary of the Central Committee (CC ) of the CPSU, the typical " apparatchik ", first worked already as an employee and since 1955 as head of the Central Committee and was responsible for the international communist movement, especially for the " fraternal parties " who do not acted in the area of the Warsaw Pact. Nikita Khrushchev promoted the opponents of Stalinism and then Mikhail Suslov the actual " party ideologist ".

25 years Central Committee Secretary

From 1961 to 1986, over 25 years, he was then as ZK - Secretary responsible for International Affairs. From 1972 to 1986 he was promoted to candidate member of the Politburo, but he was never a full member in the highest political body of the USSR, the Politburo of the CPSU. Nevertheless, he was, when it came to international politics, one of the most powerful Soviet politician were general secretaries of the party in the times when Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko.

The opponents Stalin was a conservative representative of Soviet foreign policy of strength and of peaceful coexistence, but only if it did the USSR. The new Eastern policy of the German government under Brandt and Scheel ( 1969-1975 ), he accompanied me caution. Herbert Wehner (1973) and Egon Bahr ( 1982) strove with him to a better understanding of political camps and a military disarmament of the systems.

Ponomariov was for the military invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968), exactly as for Afghanistan (1981). He rejected the new paths from ( The Third Way ) of the Communist parties in the West ( EUR communism) for ideological reasons decided and therefore had severe disagreements among others, the Italian Communist Party - leader Togliatti.

Honors

• Ponomariov won several high academic honors.
• Since 1962 Member of the Scientific Council of the USSR
• Since 1991, academic member of the Russian Academy of Sciences