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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
April 20, 1945
MOLOTOV, VYACHESLAW MIKHAILOVICH
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Governmental Position: People's Commissar for Foreign
Affairs.
Position in Communist Party: Member of the Political
Bureau and of the Central Committee
of the All-Union Communist Party;
delegate to the Third, Fourth,
Fifth, and Sixth Congresses of
the Communist International.
Real name is Skriabin; a Slav. Born in 1890 of a
worker's family; entered the Party in 1906; engaged in
revolutionary work prior to the war and imprisoned and
exiled many times. Following the February (1917) revolu-
tion, he became President of the Bolshevik faction of
the Petrograd Soviet. Following the October (1917)
revolution, he was appointed President of the Soviet of
National Economy of the Northern Region; in 1922, appointed
a member of the Central Committee of the Party working as
an assistant to Stalin. Became a member of the powerful
and exclusive Political Bureau in 1924, in which he has
since served; in 1926 he was appointed a member of the
Executive Committee of the Communist International and in
1928 was a member of the Commission which drafted the
Program of the Communist International. Prior to 1930,
he was one of the outstanding figures in the Communist
International.
In 1930 Molotov was made President of the Soviet of
People's Commissars, a position corresponding to that of
Prime Minister. In May 1939 he relieved Litvinoff of the
position of People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs. In
May