Boris Pavlovich Pozern (Russian: Борис Павлович Позерн; 7 July 1882 – 25 February 1939) was a

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politician and statesman and member of the Troika of the NKVD of the Soviet Union. Pozerb was born in

Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət ), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, from the 13th to the 17th century Novgorod of the Lower Land, formerly known as Gork ...

to a family of

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origin. He became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903. After the

February Revolution The February Revolution ( rus, Февра́льская револю́ция, r=Fevral'skaya revolyutsiya, p=fʲɪvˈralʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and somet ...

, Pozern became the head of the Minsk Soviet. A member of the

Russian Constituent Assembly The All Russian Constituent Assembly (Всероссийское Учредительное собрание, Vserossiyskoye Uchreditelnoye sobraniye) was a constituent assembly convened in Russia after the October Revolution of 1917. It met fo ...

of 1918. He was a member of the

Central Committee elected by the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) The Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) sat from 10 February 1934 until the convening of the 18th Congress on 10 March 1939. Its 1st Plenary Session elected the Politburo, Secretariat and Orgburo. ...

. During the

Great Purge The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Nikolay Yezhov, Yezhov'), was General ...

, he was arrested on 9 July 1938 and later executed by firing squad in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

. After the death of

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...

, he was rehabilitated in 1957.

Works

* ''Оппозиция на XV партконференции'' (Die Opposition auf der XV. Parteikonferenz) * Moskau und Leningrad 1928: ''Как оппозиция обороняет СССР'' (Wie die Opposition die Sowjetunion "verteidigt") * Leningrad 1925: Posern und andere: ''Коммунистическая партия и крестьянство'' (Die Kommunistische Partei und die Bauernschaft) * Leningrad 1931: ''Новые задачи и новые условия работы инженерно-технических работников'' (Neue Aufgaben und Arbeitsbedingungen für das ingenieur-technische Personal)

Bibliography

* Anatoli Rybakow: '' Jahre des Terrors. Roman. Deutsch von Juri Elperin.'' 440 Seiten. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv 11590), München 1992,
Przewodnik po historii Partii Komunistycznej i ZSRR (ros.)
* http://pomnipro.ru/memorypage6375/biography (ros.) * http://www.az-libr.ru/index.htm?Persons&FE7/c188733b/index (ros.) *

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