Boris Ponomarev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Boris Ponomarev

Soviet historian and politician

Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1905

Place of Birth: Zaraysk, Russia

Date of Death: 21-Dec-1995

Profession: politician, historian, geopolitician

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev (Russian: ????? ?????????? ?????????) (January 17, 1905 – December 21, 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. 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 until the 1991 August Coup, which he is said to have supported. In 1962, he wrote an updated state history of the CPSU to replace Stalin's 1938 The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as part of the Khrushchev Thaw.His December 1962 speech at the All-Union Conference of Historians was a major turning point in the development of Soviet historiography.