On March 9, 1890, Vyacheslav Molotov, one of the key figures in Soviet history, was born. A hardline Bolshevik loyal to Stalin, Molotov led a long and turbulent life.

The first of the Bolsheviks that Molotov got to know was Stalin. And so naturally, after Lenin's death, he supported the moustachioed one in the internal party power struggle that ensued.

On August 23, 1939, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop met Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and his foreign minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, in the Kremlin to sign a nonaggression pact -- and ...

The pact between Stalin and Hitler that paved the way to World War II is nearly taboo in Russia, where its 80th anniversary will likely go unnoticed.

On September 17 1939, the Soviet Red Army invaded Poland from the East while it was fighting Nazi Germany in the West. Following military operations, which lasted for the next 20 days, Nazi Germany ...

Molotov’s position in the tangled Soviet hierarchy has been riveted solidly to Stalin’s ever since. In 1925 he became a full member of the potent Politburo.

Molotov helped Stalin to publish Pravda, then the official organ of the Bolshevik underground. In 1912, so the tale goes, 22-year-old Molotov fell in love with a girl in a boarding school.

Molotov never intervened on his friend's behalf, and Arosev was executed by Stalin's regime. Sponsor Message As a writer, Polonsky may have the disposition of a scholar, but she has the language ...

Molotov later flew to Berlin to meet with Adolf Hitler. In 1941, when Hitler stabbed the Soviets in the back, Stalin ordered Molotov to break the news to the Russian people.

It’s true that Stalin and company — Molotov, Nikita Khrushchev, Lavrentiy Beria, Georgy Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin — were brutal beyond all measure. But as the film shows, ...