Education
He graduated from the Economics Department of the Institute of Red Professors in 1930.
He graduated from the Economics Department of the Institute of Red Professors in 1930.
He was known as a staunch Stalinist who quickly became a supporter of Nikita Khrushchev. Pospelov was born at Konakovo in 1898. He was one of the principal authors of the The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course, which served as a basic text on party history in the Stalinist period.
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
Pospelov died in Moscow in 1979 and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
In a 1969 article in the Kommunist, Pospelov praised Stalin as bulwark of party unity in the face of the "anti-Leninist" challenge of Trotskyism, writing that.
Russian Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.