Background
Yakovlev, Aleksandr Nikolayevich was born on December 2, 1923.
Yakovlev, Aleksandr Nikolayevich was born on December 2, 1923.
Degree, Yaroslavl Pedagogical Institute, 1945.
Member Communist Party Soviet Union, 1944-1991, member Yaroslavl district committee, 1946-1953. Head department science and culture Central Committee Communist Party Soviet Union, 1953-1956, instructor department propoganda and agitation, 1962-1964, head radio and television broadcasting propoganda department, 1964-1965, 1st deputy head, acting head propoganda department Moscow, 1965-1973, member central auditing committee, 1971-1976. Ambassador to Canada, 1973-1983.
Director Institute for World Economy and International Relations, 1983-1985. Head propoganda department Central Committee Communist Party Soviet Union, Moscow, 1985-1986, secretary responsible for propoganda, 1986-1987. Member central committee Communist Party Soviet Union, 1986-1991.
Candidate member, then member Politburo Central Committee Communist Party Soviet Union, Moscow, 1987-1989, head international policy committee, 1988-1991. Member Presidential Council, 1990. Chairman Presidential Commission on Rehabilitation Political Prisoners, Moscow, from 1992, Russian Public television Ltd., from 1995.
Former president Democracy Foundation.
CPSU since 1944; of Yaroslavl District Committee CPSU 1946-1948. Politburo 1987, now full member. Head of Radio and TV Broadcasting Propaganda Department, of Central Committee CPSU 1964-1965.
Of editorial staff of journal Kommunist. Of Central Auditing Commission, of Central Committee CPSU 76. Of Council of Nationalities, USSR Supreme Soviet, member of USSR Pari.
Group Committee since 1984. Presidential Council since 1990. Academy, of Sciences (Economics Department) since 1984.
Central Committee CPSU since 1986. Political Bureau June since 1987.