Vyacheslav Nikonov (Russian: Вячеслав Алексеевич Никонов, born in Moscow on June 5, 1956) is a Russian political scientist.
He is a grandson of Vyacheslav Molotov, prominent Bolshevik and Soviet foreign minister under Joseph Stalin, and was named after the grandfather.[1][2] Nikonov graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University in 1978 and has been studying the history of the U.S. Republican Party after World War II. He has been involved in Soviet and Russian politics since the 1970s, first as a local Komsomol leader, later in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and as a member of Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin's staff. In 1993 Nikonov was elected to the State Duma. In 2005 he published an early biography of Molotov (in Russian). In 2005-2007 he was a member of the Public Chamber of Russia.
References
- ^ Yale Richmond. Cultural Exchange & the Cold War: Raising the Iron Curtain. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. ISBN 0271025328. P. 173.
- ^ Lynn Berry. Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact seen in new light. Associated Press, August 22, 2009
External References
- Vyacheslav Nikonov'sopinion editorial commentaries for Project Syndicate