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Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov [c] (né Skryabin; [d] 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.
Vyacheslav Molotov, 1945. The name "Molotov cocktail" (Finnish: Molotovin cocktail) was coined by the Finns during the Winter War in 1939.[10] [11] [12] The name was a pejorative reference to Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who was one of the architects of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact on the eve of World War II.
The group, given that epithet by Khrushchev, was led by former Premiers Georgy Malenkov and Vyacheslav Molotov and former First Deputy Premier Lazar Kaganovich. The group rejected both Khrushchev's liberalization of Soviet society and his denunciation of Joseph Stalin, and promoted the full restoration and preservation of Stalinism.
Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986) 3 May 1939: 15 March 1946: 6 years, 305 days: Molotov IV Stalin I–II: Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (3) Vyacheslav Molotov
Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics is a 1993 book (ISBN 1-56663-715-5) written by Russian biographer Felix Chuev and edited by American academic Albert Resis. [1] The 1991 Russian language version of the book was published as Sto Sorok Besed s Molotovym with an afterword by Soviet Historian Sergei Kuleshov.
The negotiations, which occurred during the era of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, included a two-day conference in Berlin between Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, Adolf Hitler and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. While Ribbentrop and most of the German Foreign office wanted an alliance with the Soviet Union, Hitler ...
The Second Molotov Government was the cabinet of the Soviet Union established on August 2, 1935 with Vyacheslav Molotov as head of government, serving as president of the Council of People's Commissars. [1] It ended on December 5, 1936, when the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union approved a new composition of the Sovnarkom.
The list was also signed by Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Klim Voroshilov and Nikolay Yezhov. There were trials related to persons from the Belarusian SSR and these were given in a different list dated 15 September 1937 and signed by Stalin, Molotov and the senior state security official Vladimir Tsesarsky. The list of people from the ...