“The U.S. government does not want to involve us in this matter, it clearly prefers to consign the whole business to oblivion as soon as possible”
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Anastas Mikoyan
Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan was a Soviet statesman, diplomat, and Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union. As a member of the Communist Party's Central Committee from 1923 to 1976, he was the only Soviet politician who remained in power from Lenin, through the eras of Stalin and Khrushchev, to his retirement und…
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culture · Soviet statesman and revolutionary (1895–1978) · statesperson · party organizer · revolutionary · writer · politician · also Anastas Mikoyan, Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, Mikoyan
Born 13 November 1895 · Died 21 October 1978 · Q152738
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2026· 1 entry
2007· 1 entry
“Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, Vol. 3 : Statesman”
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2001· 1 entry
“The Soviet Colossus : History and Aftermath”
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1986· 1 entry
“MAYDAY: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair”
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1984· 1 entry
“The Soviet Government and the Jews 1948-1967”
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1978· 5 entries
Died 1978-10-21.
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“Stalin's methods did not help.”
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“Soviet Foreign Policy Toward Western Europe”
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“If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.”
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“We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.”
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1975).
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the October Revolution (1970).
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1969· 2 entries
“One Man Alone: Richard Nixon”
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“The World Almanac and Book of Facts”
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1965).
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1964· 2 entries
Career landmark: Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1964–1965).
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Khrushchev was forced to step down in a coup that brought Brezhnev to power
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1962· 1 entry
Khrushchev sent Mikoyan and Frol Kozlov to Novocherkassk to deal with growing unrest in the southern city
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1957· 1 entry
Mikoyan refused to back an attempt by Malenkov, Molotov, and Kaganovich to remove Khrushchev from power, and thus secured his position as one of Khrushchev's closest allies during the Thaw
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1956· 1 entry
Mikoyan helped Khrushchev organize his "Secret Speech", delivered before the 20th Party Congress, in which Khrushchev denounced Stalin's personality cult
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1955· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1955).
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Career landmark: First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1955–1964).
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1953· 2 entries
A power struggle ensued for the Soviet leadership
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Mikoyan sided with Khrushchev, supported him against a failed coup in 1957, and played a leading role in crafting his de-Stalinization policy
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1949· 1 entry
And being criticized by Stalin at the 19th Party Congress in 1952
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1946· 3 entries
Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Trade of the Soviet Union (1946–1949).
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Became the Vice-Premier of the Council of Ministers
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Career landmark: Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1946–1955).
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1945· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1945).
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1943· 3 entries
Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1943).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1943).
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Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1943).
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1937· 2 entries
Mikoyan signed death-lists given to him by the NKVD
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Career landmark: Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1937–1946).
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1936· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1936).
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Enthusiastically supported the execution of Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, claiming it to be a "just verdict"
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1935· 3 entries
Was elected to the Politburo and was one of the first Soviet leaders to pay goodwill trips to the United States in order to boost economic cooperation
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Served as foreign trade minister from 1926 to 1930 and again from 1938, and during World War II became a member of the State Defense Committee
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Career landmark: Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1935–1966).
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1928· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Banner (1928).
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1924· 1 entry
Mikoyan supported Stalin, whom he had first met in 1919
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1923· 1 entry
And remained a member of that body for more than 50 years
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1922· 1 entry
Before the power struggle between Stalin and Leon Trotsky had broken out into the open, Mikoyan characterised Trotsky as "a man of the state but not of the party"
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1915· 2 entries
Formally joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (later known as the Bolshevik Party) and became a leader of the revolutionary movement in the Caucasus
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And following the October Revolution of 1917 participated in the Baku Commune
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1895· 2 entries
Born 1895-11-13.
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In the village of Sanahin, then part of the Tiflis Governorate of the Russian Empire (today part of Alaverdi in Armenia's Lori Province)
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