Original: Molotov;  – 8 November, 1986) was a Soviet politician and diplomat, a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to 1957, when he was dismissed from Presidium (Politburo) of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev.
Simplified: He was a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he came to power.