Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then Molotov launched into a 50-minute speech rehashing his previous arguments. "It will lead to no good," he said, "to set a majority against a minority." And: "As a golden rule all conferences should attain unanimity...
...every issue confronting the Conference, the pattern would be determined by Russia's effort to squeeze from victory in the war the last drop of political advantage in the postwar world. Whether Russia's dynamic advance would continue or be halted peaceably depended largely on how much Molotov at Paris enlarged Moscow's somewhat limited ability to win friends & influence peoples...
Life in a Cellar. Vyacheslav Mikhailovitch Scriabin was born 56 years ago, the son of a store clerk in Nolinsk, 480 miles northeast of Moscow. At 16, by adopting the Russian word Molot (for hammer), he became Molotov the Communist-in whose vigorous, resilient carcass was buried Scriabin...
...Molotov, one of the most important figures of the mid-20th Century, began his real life in a dark cellar in Kazan where he became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Party (Bolshevik faction). At 19 he was exiled to the Arctic (30 years later he jailed the policeman who had arrested him). By 1912 he was helping Joseph Stalin to edit a small sheet called Pravda, and by 1917 he had risen to a dizzy revolutionary height where Lenin himself noticed Molotov; Lenin called him "the best file clerk in Russia...
...revolutionaries who ran the U.S.S.R. in the early years of civil war and chaos were first-rate administrators. Molotov's orderly mind soon put him near the top. At 31 he was made one of the three secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. In 1922, when Stalin moved into the Secretariat with the title of Secretary-General to get control of the Party in his feud with Trotsky, he had Molotov as his assistant. Molotov's position in the tangled Soviet hierarchy has been riveted solidly to Stalin's ever since...