Word: mikoyan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eastern Subtraction. The Russians had made their choice. With their own ideas of economic predestination, they would not even be present in John Calvin's grey old city. The postwar deals that Soviet trade chief Anastas Mikoyan has been arranging made it clear that Russian trade would be based on the Kremlin's notions of military security and political expediency-not on old-fashioned consumer demand...
...proposed the following: Premier, Molotov; First Vice Premier, Beria; Foreign Minister, Mikoyan; First Secretary of the Party [Stalin's own original post of power], Zhdanov; Second Secretary, Malenkov; Minister of Defense, Voroshilov; First Vice Minister of Defense, Bu-denny; President of the Council of the Union, Andreyev; President of the Council of Nationalities, Bulganin; President of the Supreme U.S.S.R. Council, Shver...
...Kremlin also wanted a Foreign Minister who is relatively well known abroad, especially in the U.S. Anastas Mikoyan, the slick little Armenian who long ran Soviet foreign trade, fills that bill. Eric Johnston called him "a Jesse Jones, a Donald Nelson and a Harry Hopkins rolled into...
...Gang. On the official Politburo list (more important than gorodki scores) Zhdanov now stands fourth-after Stalin, Molotov and the hated Lavrenty Beria, head of the secret police. Of those below Zhdanov, his most serious rival is Georgi Malenkov, 44, a brilliant backstairs intriguer. Others are Anastas Mikoyan, the Armenian foreign trade chief, who enjoys Stalin's personal favor but has little party following, and a dark horse, Nikolai Bulganin, the political boss of the Army. Molotov, Beria and Malenkov are loosely grouped as the reactionary anti-Westerners. But as long as Stalin lives the whole gang will stick...
...During Stalin's vacation the Politburo got into a fight. Communist Central Committee Secretary Andrei Zhdanov, Chairman of the Communist Party Control Commission Andrei Andreiev and People's Commissar of Foreign Trade Anastas Mikoyan urged a moderate Soviet foreign policy. Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov and Commissar of Internal Affairs Lavrenti Beria were for a more aggressive policy. Molotov had acted on this basis at the last London conference. When Stalin returned, he threw his weight on the moderate side and stressed the overwhelming importance for Russia of getting along with the U.S. and Britain at least long enough...