Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev (russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Пономарёв) (17 January 1905 – 21 December 1995) was a

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and member of the

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of the

Communist Party of the Soviet Union "Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper ...

. His patron in his rise to the

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was

Mikhail Suslov Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov (russian: Михаи́л Андре́евич Су́слов; 25 January 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1965, and as uno ...

. 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

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, which he is said to have supported. In 1962, Ponomarev wrote an updated state history of the

CPSU "Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first)Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper ...

to replace

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 Secretar ...

's 1938 '' The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union'' as part of the

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

Publications

*
Plot against the Soviet Union and world peace
' (1938) *''Soviet Foreign Policy'' Vol. 1 1917 - 1945, edited with

Anatoly Gromyko Anatoly Andreyevich Gromyko (russian: Анатолий Андреевич Громыко; 15 April 1932 – 25 September 2017) was a Soviet and Russian scientist and diplomat. He specialized in American and African studies as well as intern ...

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, 1980 *''History of Soviet Foreign Policy 1945-1970'', edited with

, 1974

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