1923–1976: Full member, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 22nd, 23rd, & 24th Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Other offices held
1938–45: People's Commissar for Foreign Trade
1934–38: People's Commissar for Food
1930–34: People's Commissar of Supplies
1926–30: People's Commissar for Trade
Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (English: /miːkoʊˈjɑːn/; Russian: Анаста́с Ива́нович Микоя́н; Armenian: Անաստաս Հովհաննեսի Միկոյան, romanized: Anastas Hovhannesi Mikoyan; 25 November 1895 – 21 October 1978) was an Armenian Communist revolutionary, Old Bolshevik and Soviet statesman. Having been elected to the Central Committee in 1923, he was the only Soviet politician who managed to remain at the highest levels of power within the Communist Party from the latter days of Lenin, through the eras of Stalin and Khrushchev, to his peaceful retirement under Brezhnev.
An early convert to the Bolshevik cause, Mikoyan participated in the Baku Commune under the leadership of Stepan Shahumyan during the Russian Civil War in the Caucasus. In the 1920s, he served as the First Secretary of the North Caucasus region. During Stalin's rule, Mikoyan held several high governmental posts, including that of Minister of Foreign Trade. However, by the 1940s, Mikoyan began to lose favour with Stalin. In 1949, he lost his long-standing post of minister of foreign trade, and in October 1952, Stalin attacked him harshly at the 19th Party Congress. When Stalin died in 1953, Mikoyan again took a leading role in policy-making. Together, he and Khrushchev crafted the de-Stalinization policy and later he became First Deputy Premier under Khrushchev. Mikoyan's position during the Thaw made him the second most powerful figure in the Soviet Union at the time.
Mikoyan made several key trips to communist Cuba and to the United States, acquiring an important stature on the international diplomatic scene, especially with his skill in exercising soft power to further Soviet interests. In 1964 Khrushchev was forced to step down in a coup that brought Brezhnev to power. Mikoyan served as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the nominal Head of State, from 1964 until his forced retirement in 1965.
crimes and embarked on a policy of de-Stalinization with his key ally AnastasMikoyan. He sponsored the early Soviet space program and the enactment of moderate...
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was the son of AnastasMikoyan, an Old Bolshevik and high level Soviet statesman and adviser to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Mikoyan was born to Ashkhen...
Alaverdi in Armenia's Lori Province) on 5 August 1905. His older brother, AnastasMikoyan, would become official head of state of the Soviet Union. He completed...
General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. On 6 December 1965, he replaced AnastasMikoyan as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. After Kosygin's...
premier, and AnastasMikoyan kept his office as chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. On the orders of the Politburo, Mikoyan was forced to...
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In 1936, Joseph Stalin sent People's Commissar of the Food Industry AnastasMikoyan on a business trip to the United States to study and adapt American...
Voroshilov, Nikita Khrushchev, Nikolai Bulganin, Lazar Kaganovich and AnastasMikoyan. Amongst them Malenkov, Beria and Molotov formed an unofficial Triumvirate...
steps, and on 22 November 1962, Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union AnastasMikoyan told Castro that the rockets with the nuclear warheads were being removed...
high-ranking Soviet politicians including Alexei Kosygin, Andrei Gromyko, AnastasMikoyan, and Frol Kozlov. Sukhodrev was born into the family of a Soviet intelligence...
his Presidium officers congratulated him for his work in office. AnastasMikoyan visited Khrushchev, hinting that he should not be too complacent about...
Anastas Alekseevich Mikoyan (Russian: Анаста́с Алексе́евич Микоя́н), also known professionally as Stas Namin (Russian: Ста́с На́мин) is a Russian rock...
Mikhail Litvin, and later AnastasMikoyan to oversee a purge of the Communist Party of Armenia. During his trip to Armenia, Mikoyan tried, but failed, to...
Voroshilov, Nikita Khrushchev, Nikolai Bulganin, Lazar Kaganovich and AnastasMikoyan. Reforms to the Soviet system were immediately implemented. Economic...
and Healthy Food, first printed in 1939, following the directions of AnastasMikoyan. Russian cuisine Ukrainian cuisine Belarusian cuisine Uzbek cuisine...
Mikhail Litvin, and later AnastasMikoyan to oversee a purge of the Communist Party of Armenia. During his trip to Armenia, Mikoyan tried, but failed, to...
birthplace of the brothers Anastas and Artem Mikoyan. Artem was a famous aircraft designer, and co-founder of the Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) design bureau...
February 1955 – 27 March 1958 President Kliment Voroshilov First Deputies AnastasMikoyan Mikhail Pervukhin Maksim Saburov Joseph Kuzmin Lazar Kaganovich Preceded...
Harrison (1988). Preface. The Memoirs of AnastasMikoyan, Vol. 1: The Path of Struggle. By Mikoyan, Anastas I. Translated by O'Connor, Katherine T.; Burgin...
reporters and onlookers, including Politburo members Leonid Brezhnev, AnastasMikoyan and Yekaterina Furtseva at the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki...
Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) sent to Hungary, Politburo members AnastasMikoyan and Mikhail Suslov, as well as KGB Chairman Ivan Serov and Mikhail...
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