Boris Pozern

Boris Pavlovich Pozern (Борис Павлович Позерн; 7 July 1882 – 25 February 1939) was a Soviet politician, party official and member of the Troika of the NKVD of the Soviet Union.

Pozerb was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a family of German origin. He became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903. After the February Revolution, Pozern became the head of the Minsk Soviet.

A member of the Russian Constituent Assembly of 1918. He was a member of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). During the Great Purge, he was arrested on 9 July 1938 and later executed by firing squad in Moscow. After the death of Joseph Stalin, he was rehabilitated in 1957.

Works

 * Оппозиция на XV партконференции (Opposition at the 15th Party Conference)
 * Leningrad, 1925: Pozern et. al.: Коммунистическая партия и крестьянство (The Communist Party and the Peasantry)
 * Moscow and Leningrad, 1928: Как оппозиция обороняет СССР (How Opposition Defends the U.S.S.R.)
 * Leningrad, 1931: Новые задачи и новые условия работы инженерно-технических работников (New Tasks and New Working Conditions for Engineers and Technicians)