Pyotr Nikolayevich Pospelov

Pyotr Pospelov ( Russian Пётр Николаевич Поспелов ; born June 8 ^jul. / 20th June  1898 ^greg. In Kuznetsovo , Tver province ; † 22. April 1979 in Moscow ) was a Soviet functionary of the CPSU , propagandist, journalist and historian of the Bolshevik Line.

As the son of an employee, he attended grammar school in Tver . From 1916 he studied at the Agricultural Academy in Chelyabinsk and Moscow. He became a member of the RSDLP in 1916. In Tver he was active in the underground work of the party from 1917 to 1918, where he also worked as secretary of the textile workers' union. He continued underground work in Siberia from 1918 to 1919, mainly in Chelyabinsk.

In Tver he then worked until 1924 as head of agitation and propaganda for the party's territory. From 1924 to 1926 he took on a function in the Central Committee of the CPSU for the first time . From 1926 he began studying Marxism-Leninism at the Institute of the Red Professorship (IKP) in the Department of Economics and the Communist Academy . After he had finished his studies in 1930, he became a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU and at the same time editor of the Pravda newspaper and the Bolshevik magazine . From 1934 he was a member of the Central Control Commission of the CPSU . He participated in the preparations and the execution of the political cleansing in the Soviet Union.

In the years 1937 to 1940 he occupied the post of deputy head of the administration for agitation and propaganda at the Central Committee of the CPSU . With the admission to the Central Committee of the party in 1939 and the following year on the XVIII. At the CPSU party congress, where he was appointed editor-in-chief of Pravda , his influence on the Stalinist line in the Soviet Union expanded considerably. In 1946 he was elected deputy to the Supreme Soviet .

From 1949 to 1952 he was director of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism . Then he returned to Pravda as editor-in-chief . In the years from 1949 to 1952 he had also done editorial and journalistic work for the Great Soviet Encyclopedia and as editor-in-chief of the magazine Kommunist . From 1953 to 1960 he headed the work of the secretariat as secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. In 1956 he again had a seat in the Central Committee of the CPSU. In the same year he became a member of the office of the CPSU in the RSFSR .

From 1957 to 1961 he was a candidate for the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU . In 1958 he again held the function of a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR . In 1960 he had to give up the post of secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. He then devoted himself to the activities of the management of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism from 1961 to 1967. From 1967 he worked in the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . As an author, he contributed to the presentation of the Russian Civil War and the presentation of a complete work on the German-Soviet War under the title History of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 . He also co-wrote part of Lenin's biography , which was first published in 1959.

Pospelov was awarded high Soviet honors. In 1958 he was given the title of Hero of Socialist Labor . He was also awarded the Stalin Prize , three times the Order of Lenin , the Order of the Patriotic War First Class and the hammer and sickle gold medal .

credentials

• Hans Koch (Ed.): 5000 Soviet heads . Cologne 1959.
• Andrew I. Lebed, Heinrich E. Schulze, Stephen S. Taylor (Eds.): Who's Who in the USSR 1965-66 . New York 1966.
• Bernhard Schalhorn: Pospelov, Petr Nikolaevic , in: Hans-Joachim Torke (Ed.): Historical Lexicon of the Soviet Union 1917/22 to 1991 . Munich 1993, p. 251.

Web links

• Article by Pyotr Nikolajewitsch Pospelow in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D091861~2a%3D~2b%3DPjotr%20Nikolajewitsch%20Pospelow
• CV , AZ Library (Russian)
• Short biography , Chelyabinsk encyclopedia (Russian)