Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov (Russian: Вячесла́в Миха́йлович Мо́лотов; March 9 [O.S. February 25] 1890 in Kukarka – November 8, 1986 in Moscow) was a Soviet politician and diplomat who served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1941. He was a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he came to power. He worked for Joseph Stalin from 1924 to 1953 when Stalin died, and for Georgy Malenkov from March-September 1953. He worked for Nikita Khrushchev until Khrushchev dismissed him from office in 1956.
Molotov was the main Soviet signatory of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939. The pact was signed between Germany and the Soviet Union, and both countries promised not to attack each other. The pact lasted about two years until Germany started the invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941.
The Molotov Cocktail, which was invented by Finns fighting in the Winter War against the Soviet invasion of Finland, is named after him.
| Preceded by Alexey Rykov |
Prime Minister of the Soviet Union 1930–1941 |
Succeeded by Joseph Stalin |
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Vyacheslav Molotov's born house in Sovetsk, Kirov oblast, Russia
Молотов, Вячеслав Михайлович
Molotov and the OGPU's first chief Felix Dzerzhinsky, 1924
Molotov speaks at a meeting of peasant women, 1925
Klim Voroshilov, Lazar Kaganovich, Alexander Kosarev and Vyacheslav Molotov at the seventh Conference of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (Komsomol), July 1932.
Molotov (left) with Stalin (center) and Voroshilov (right) in 1937 during the great purge
Vyacheslav Molotov (Skryabin), Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (Prime Minister) and Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party, in 1932.
City of Leningrad. List of persons to be tried by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Union of the SSR. April 1937. Approving signatures: Joseph Stalin,
Molotov meets with Joachim von Ribbentrop before they sign the German–Soviet Pact.
