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 ...

In connection with the appointment of Maxim Litvinoff as Soviet commissar for foreign affairs the Moscow papers today are full of biographical material about him. The stories are replete with tales of ...

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 set up ...

The former Soviet Commissar of Justice, Steinberg, who is now in Poland, participated in a session of the central committee of the Polish “He’Chalutz,” and visited a Chalutzim farm here, as well as ...

It was the first press conference ever held by a Premier of the Soviet Union. Some press conference. Flanked by the other Soviet delegates to the Parley at the Summit-Khrushchev, Molotov, Zhukov and ...