Boris Ponomarev

Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev (Russian: Борис Николаевич Пономарев) (January 17, 1905 - December 21, 1995) was a Soviet politician, ideologist and historian, and a member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His patron in his rise to the politburo was Mikhail Suslov,one of the last Stalinists then still active as a full member of the Politburo until his death in 1982.

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 right up until the 1991 August Coup, which he is said to have supported.

He wrote the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1960 in which he claimed that the October Revolution was a working class revolution.

[edit] Quotes

• "Comrades, I can understand your view of Australia as a country of little importance to your concerns ... You are wrong ... You must understand that if we wish to control Asia we must first control Australia."^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Publications

Soviet Foreign Policy Vol. 1 1917 - 1945, edited with Andrei Gromyko, Progress Publishers, 1980

[edit] External links

• Russian Academy of Sciences: Profile