Pyotr Nikolayevich Pospelov (Russian: Пётр Николаевич Поспелов) (June 20, 1898, Konakovo, Russia — April 22, 1979, Moscow) was a high-ranked functionary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ("Old Bolshevik", since 1916), propagandist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1953), chief editor of Pravda newspaper, director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism. He was knows as a staunch Stalinist who quickly became the supporter of Nikita Khrushchev. [1]
He graduated from the Economics Department of the Institute of Red Professors in 1930.[1]
He is also known as the head of the "Pospelov commission" on the investigation of the mass repressions in the Soviet Union, whose findings had laid the basis and the contents of Nikita Khrushchev's "secret speech" On the Personality Cult and its Consequences [2]
Pospelov was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Awards
- 6 Orders of Lenin
- Order of the October Revolution
- Order of the Patriotic War of 2nd degree
- Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Hero of Socialist Labor (1958)
- Stalin Prize (1943)
References
- ^ a b Pospelov's biography at khronos.ru (Russian)
- ^ Michael Charlton (1992) "Footsteps from the Finland Station: Five Landmarks in the Collapse of Communism" ISBN 1560000198, Chapter 1: "Khrushchev's Secret Speech", pp. 7-80
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