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 ...

Early History. The Russian imperial army and navy disintegrated after the outbreak of the Revolution of 1917, so the Council of the People's Commissars created the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. NIKOLAI Baibakov, the last living commissar to serve under Joseph Stalin — he oversaw Soviet oil production during World War II ...

On August 23, 1939, the Soviet Union and Germany signed a nonaggression treaty in Moscow, paving the way for the Nazi and Soviet invasions of Poland the following month and the beginning of World ...

Nikolai Baibakov, who served as Josef Stalin's oil commissar and later guided the Soviet Union's planned economy for two decades, has died. He was 97. Mr. Baibakov, believed to have been the last ...

Baibakov served as Russia’s deputy oil commissar during World War II. He was named Stalin’s oil commissioner in 1944 and fired in 1985 by the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, whose ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's highest court on Thursday refused to legally rehabilitate Genrikh Yagoda, the head of the Soviet-era NKVD secret police who oversaw Stalinist purges in the 1930s and ...