Molotov's Second Government

Molotov's Second government

8th government of the Soviet Union
Date formed18 March 1931 (1931-03-18)
Date dissolved2 August 1935 (1935-08-02)
People and organisations
Head of stateMikhail Kalinin
Head of governmentVyacheslav Molotov
Deputy head of governmentValerian Kuibyshev
No. of ministers29
History
PredecessorMolotov I
SuccessorMolotov III

The Second Government of Molotov was the cabinet of the Soviet Union established on March 18, 1931, with Vyacheslav Molotov as the head of government, serving as the President of the Council of People's Commissars.

It ended on August 2, 1935, when the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union approved a new composition of the Sovnarkom.

Composition

People's Commissar Incumbent Party
Chairman Vyacheslav Molotov CPSU (b)
First Deputy Chairman Valerian Kuibyshev CPSU (b)
Vice Chairmen Janis Rudzutaks[1] CPSU (b)
Valerian Kuibyshev CPSU (b)
Valery Mezhlauk CPSU (b)
Vlas Chubar CPSU (b)
Andrei Andreyev CPSU (b)
People's Commissar for Affairs Platon Kerzhentsev (1931–1933) CPSU (b)
Ivan Miroshnikov (1933–1935) CPSU (b)
Foreign Affairs Maksim Litvinov CPSU (b)
Military and Naval Affairs (1931-1934) Kliment Voroshilov CPSU (b)
Defense (1934-1935)
External Trade Arkadi Rozengoltz CPSU (b)
Supply (1931-1934) Anastas Mikoyan CPSU (b)
Food Industry (1933-1935)
Domestic Trade Izrail Veytser CPSU (b)
Railways Moisey Rukhimovich (1931) CPSU (b)
Andrei Andreyev (1931–1935) CPSU (b)
Posts and Telegraphs (1931–1932) Aleksei Rykov CPSU (b)
Communications (1932-1935)
Supreme Council of National Economy (1931–1932) Sergei Ordzhonikidze CPSU (b)
Heavy Industry (1932–1935)
Forestry Semyon Lobov CPSU (b)
Light Industry Isidor Lyubimov CPSU (b)
Labor Anton Tsikhon CPSU (b)
Inspection of Workers and Peasants Andrei Andreyev (1931) CPSU (b)
Janis Rudzutaks (1931–1934) C PSU (b)
Finance Grigori Grinko CPSU (b)
Agriculture Yakov Yakovlev (1931–1934) CPSU (b)
Mikhail Chernov (1934–1935) CPSU (b)
Water Transport Nikolai Janson (1931–1934) CPSU (b)
Nikolai Pakhomov (1934–1935) CPSU (b)
Cereal and Livestock Sovkhozes Tikhon Yurikin (1932–1934) CPSU (b)
Moisei Kalmanovich (1934–1935) CPSU (b)
Internal Affairs Genrikh Yagoda[2] CPSU (b)

References

  1. ^ Getty, J Arch and Naumov, Oleg V. (2010). The Road to Terror, Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939. New Haven: Yale U.P. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-300-10407-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Getty, J. Arch. Origins of the Great Purges. pp. 121–122 and 245–246.