Nikolai Baibakov, who died Monday in Moscow at 98, oversaw the Soviet oil industry during World War II. Later, as head of Gosplan, the Soviet economic planning commission from 1965–85, he was in ...

Georges Tchicherin, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, said in an optimistic moment that Great Britain, Italy and perhaps the U. S. will shortly recognize Soviet Russia. “France,” said he ...

To reach a truce, the Soviet Commissar and the Japanese Ambassador each made concessions. Mr. Shigemitsu gave up his original contention that the commission chosen to arbitrate the boundary should ...

The phrase “food as weapon” originated with a Soviet commissar as Soviets weaponized food in 1921 against “class enemies,” coercively requisitioning Ukrainian grain to feed Russians.

On April 13, 1941, Japan’s foreign minister, Yosuke Matsuoka, and the Soviet commissar of foreign affairs, Vyacheslav Molotov, signed a neutrality pact, valid for five years.