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Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov [c] [d] (/ ˈ m ɒ l ə t ɒ f /; [1] né Skryabin; [e] 9 March [O. S. 25 February] 1890 – 8 November 1986) was a Soviet politician, diplomat, and revolutionary who was a leading figure in the government of the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1950s, as one of Joseph Stalin's closest allies.
Molotov Remembers primarily consists of Soviet politician and diplomat Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov's interviews with Chuev. Chuev met with Molotov regularly from 1969 to 1986 (the last 17 years of the politician's life) and engaged in a series of interviews "each on the average four to five hours."
In his reminiscences dictated to a supporter later in life, Vyacheslav Molotov—Litvinov's replacement as chief of foreign affairs and right-hand man of Joseph Stalin—said Litvinov was "intelligent" and "first rate" but said Stalin and he "didn't trust him" and consequently "left him out of negotiations" with the United States during the war ...
Decades later, former senior officer and historian Dmitry Volkogonov [5] described how, on 28 February 1953, Stalin and a small number of his inner circle, consisting of Lavrentiy Beria, Nikita Khrushchev, Georgy Malenkov, Vyacheslav Molotov and a few others, gathered together for an evening of entertainment and drinking. After the guests ...
Vyacheslav Molotov served as Stalin's deputy, an informal post referred to by Sovietologists as Second Secretary, and was empowered to manage party business and sign Politburo resolutions when Stalin was away from Moscow. [4] Upon Molotov's appointment as SNK Chairman in December 1930, Lazar Kaganovich took his place as Second Secretary. [5]
Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina [a] (born Perl Solomonovna Karpovskaya; [b] 27 February 1897 – 1 April 1970) was a Soviet politician and the wife of the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Zhemchuzhina was the director of the Soviet national cosmetics trust from 1932 to 1936, Minister of Fisheries in 1939, and head of textiles ...
In 1955, he replaced Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union. Initially a close ally of Khrushchev, Bulganin came to doubt his policies and became associated with an opposition group led by Vyacheslav Molotov. The group's defeat led to the fall of Bulganin, and in 1958 he was dismissed as premier and expelled from the Politburo.
Life years Start End Vyacheslav Molotov: September 1920 November 1920 1890–1986 Taras Kharchenko: December 1920 January 1921 1893–1937 Andrei Radchenko: 1920 1921 1887–1938 Emmanuil Kviring: 1921 April 1923 1888–1937 Aleksandr Krinitsky: 1923 1924 1894–1937 Andrei Radchenko: 1924 1925 1887–1938