Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struggle was long and costly. After it ended, Molotov was rewarded with the Premiership, which he held for eleven turbulent years (1930-41). During these years, he graduated from machine politics to statesmanship. He fathered the collectivization of Russia's farms, helped to put through the first two Five-Year Plans, worked on the new Constitution...
...world crisis began to overshadow all else in the Russian mind. For the key job in the Foreign Commissariat, Stalin picked his top trouble shooter, Molotov. This was more than a change of faces in Narkomindel (Foreign Office). It was an about-face in Russian policy, from collective security to the two-fisted stand urged by Molotov and his fellow advisers...
...pursuit of this policy, Stalin and Molotov welcomed Joachim von Ribbentrop to the Kremlin and launched out upon the Soviet Union's brief and fateful course of collaboration with Nazi Germany. Five weeks before Hitler attacked the U.S.S.R., Stalin took over the Premiership from Molotov, assigned him primarily to Foreign Affairs. In May 1942 Foreign Commissar Molotov climbed into a four-motored bomber, flew west to seek friends...
...London, he was known as "Mr. Smith." In Eden's room on May 26, Molotov signed (with Churchill's pen) a 20-year pact which is still the basis of Anglo-Soviet Union relations...
...Commissar. Molotov is married, has two teen-age daughters (one adopted). When he takes the girls picnicking, Ogpu guards form a discreet ring around them...