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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.
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.
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.
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (Russian: Вячесла́в Миха́йлович Мо́лотов; 9 March, [O.S. 25 February] 1890 – 8 November 1986) was a Soviet politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik and a leading figure in the government of the Soviet Union from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to 1957, when he was dismissed from the Presidium ...
Anastas Mikoyan and Vyacheslav Molotov claim that Bukharin was never tortured. Bukharin had been allowed to write four book-length manuscripts, including an autobiographical novel, How It All Began , a philosophical treatise, and a collection of poems – all of which were found in Stalin's archive and published in the 1990s – while in prison.
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 December 1930, when Vyacheslav Molotov promoted to the post of chairman of the Soviet government, Kaganovich replaced him as Stalin's deputy in the party secretariat, a position he held until February 1935. In these four years, he was the third most powerful figure in the Soviet leadership, behind Stalin and Molotov.
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.